TOC for man

[Mike Schwartz]

On 2/15/07, Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:01:39PM -0700, JT Moree wrote:
> > Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > > I'd say "Info is the unfortunate replacement that GNU created for
> man."
> > > Replacing an outdated but serviceable utility shouldn't be done with a
> > > half-baked idea and poor implementation choices.
> >
> > Anything that will make info actually have info would be great.  Every
> > time I've checked it, it has nothing or the same thing as the man page.
> >  Half the time the man page said 'see info'  and info says 'see info'.
>
> Info is a GNU creation, and there was a time when it seemed GNU really
> believed it would be seen as vastly superior and be adopted by everyone
> very quickly. Some major GNU offerings have extensive docs in info.
> Fewer, but some major non-GNU stuff also have their major docs in info.
> I believe there are some nice GUI browsers for info that take away most of
> the pain.
> --
> Darrin Chandler                   |  Phoenix BSD Users Group
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> I believe there are some nice GUI browsers for info
> that take away most of the pain.

How about just using html? (a web page)? (or a wiki)?
The combination of readily available browsers,
plus already-available stuff to help one to do searches,
((both in terms of software, and referring to
  search engines with their own indexes
  that are all ready - you just use theirs)),
makes it a good idea in my opinion.
As for "converting" (or, duplicating) the content
that is already formatted as an info or as a man page,
isn't that what scripts (and macros) are for?
Just my 0.02, from
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com
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