On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:01:17 +0000 Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> Producing PDF is easy enough, > > man -Tps 3 sleep | ps2pdf - sleep.3.pdf > > but the PDFs don't link either. > > Online sites do provide HTML man pages with linking, e.g. > http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/en/man3/sleep.3.html Thanks for the suggestions. Quite a few projects have managed to generate linked HTML man pages. I guess that shows the problem is well enough defined that the link target can be reliably inferred. What I like is something that works as fast as using man(1) on an xterm, and is as convenient for scanning text as less(1), but is prettier and more intelligent. (I'm sure that description leaves you wondering if I'm talking about software or a companion.) HTML and Gnome/KDE are both "practical" in the sense that they leverage other, more widely used, technologies. But there's nothing inherent in the displaying of a document in X that requires a desktop environment or the lossage of HTML. Thanks again. I was faintly surprised to find no improvement on xman that didn't mean adopting a new religion. I posted here hoping someone would remember an obscure project I might have missed. --jkl
