GNU manuals have always been intended to serve as both good introductions that can be read straight through, and as reference manuals. You don't have to give a manual a meaningless structure to make it easy to find things by name. Good indexes and good menus can do that.
Well, the other reason that I didn't tell you is that the current format is a pita to update and work with. And just that has discouragred me several times to even bother with updating the manual (it is very outdated!). In short, the current structure sucks for anything usable, and anything one can work without pulling your hair out. For the introduction part one can add a nice chapter specially written as a introduction, which has references to other parts of the manual. Cheers. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
