Markus Weissmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Good to hear the idea has some support. As far as the XML >> formatting, it >> has proved to be difficult to to get man pages from them that are >> formatted well, and I'm not sure they are formatted all that well >> now. I >> was surprised at the difficulties we've run into, and I see why most >> people still use troff. But I do think that having a single source >> for >> the man pages and docs and the resulting accuracy and ease of keeping >> updated docs trumps any of the difficulties. That's my view anyway. >> > >For the esthetics, perhaps we can do something like adding a command >to port(1) that opens a generated html-file in a browser (via >`open'), like 'port help portfile' -- or just also include a html- >version of the "manpages" with port(1).
That sounds like an interesting idea. Mark _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev