Leon Timmermans <faw...@gmail.com> writes: > The problem of us treating manpages as our designated documentation > medium strikes us once again. IMO, it's time for perl's documentation to > enter the 21st century and accept that hypertext has taken over. This > kind of trouble keeps popping up (think of the lack of tables or proper > support for images).
> I'm fine with reading my documentation on the console (I do it > regularly), but by targeting the lowest common denominator we're cutting > ourselves short. Your rant against man pages is somewhat undermined by the fact that I, as maintainer of Pod::Man, have supported anchor text for URL L<> links from the beginning and opposed this restriction from the start. The restriction has nothing to do with targetting man pages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
