On 2023-09-25 01:25, Dennis German wrote:
@arsen: thanks for the reference to
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/TODO.HTML
@berny: ... man pages are available online in HTML format:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
These pages are only partially in HTML format , not
OK, ya learn something every day, at least I try to.
The documentation at
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html
looks really good ! Examples and explanation.
Some extra begin/end quote (noise) and somewhat extra spacey with
option (multiple double spaced) on a
On 9/23/23 18:35, Jeffrey Cliff wrote:
Test suite told me to send this report in so here we are.
environment : custom LFS (GNM)
coreutils: 9.4
gcc: (GCC) 13.2.0
> FAIL: tests/rm/ext3-perf
>
> [...]
>
> ++ date +%s
> + start=1698065263
> + mkdir d
> + cd d
> + xargs
Dragan Simic writes:
> On 2023-09-24 15:47, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 9/24/23 14:37, Dennis German wrote:
>>> After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man pages
>>> standardized to HTML format?
>>> Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
On 2023-09-24 15:47, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 9/24/23 14:37, Dennis German wrote:
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man
pages
standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should and fewer use info , but
markdown might be a better target than html because it is human readable and
many web sites can display it as html with wrapping text.
pandoc https://pandoc.org/ can convert LaTex and roff man to other formats like
markdown, RST, and html.
texi2roff can convert texi to groff -me, -mm, or -ms. I
On 9/24/23 14:37, Dennis German wrote:
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man pages
standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone uses a browser.
Sorry, I don't
On 2023-09-24 14:47, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
Dennis German writes:
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man
pages
standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should
and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone
On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 02:49 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
>
> Many standards come and go.
>
> Note that I agree that a better info viewer (and a better info on-disk
> format) are necessary, but groff -Tutf8 -mtty-char | less -R is not
> better. It lacks the ability to navigate or reflow (the
Sorry, that was probably a bit harsh.
On 2023-09-24 14:37, Dennis German wrote:
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man
pages standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone uses a browser.
Are you
James Feeney writes:
> On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 02:49 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
>>
>> Many standards come and go.
>>
>> Note that I agree that a better info viewer (and a better info on-disk
>> format) are necessary, but groff -Tutf8 -mtty-char | less -R is not
>> better. It lacks the
Dennis German writes:
> After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man pages
> standardized to HTML format?
>
> Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they should
> and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone uses a browser.
>
> And I don't mean
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man pages
standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone uses a browser.
And I don't mean programmatically simply wrapping the
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