Am 16.06.97 schrieb liw # iki.fi ... Moin Lars!
LW> It was decided many moons ago that Debian would use HTML as its LW> primary on-line documentation format. HTML should be the default. That's right. But a lot of important packages like doc-linux don't use HTML. LW> is done with texi2html. For example, you can't reformat Info LW> files, and the layout is rather horrible. The most beginners don't like info because there's no good browser. I would vote for texi2html because it look's much better than info2html and the user doesn't need a WWW server. LW> In my humble opinion, packages should include HTML in the main LW> package, and put Info files in a separate package if they are I think we should use HTML in the packages. Additional we could produce postscript files for printing. The info format is useless. LW> large. Of course, given that most of the world seems to be LW> using Emacs, Info is probably too popular for this decision. The beginners don't like emacs ;-). I would suggest, that we introduce a new directory /usr/html or /usr/doc/html for the HTML documents. So we could seperate HTML and ASCII (/usr/doc) documents. This seperation makes the development of HTML help systems like dwww much easier. cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202.15 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
