On Sat, 2011-02-19, Ben Finney wrote: > Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes: ... >> HTML also gives you much greater formatting flexibility than what's >> still basically 35-year old nroff. > > Full agreement there.
Some disagreement here. There are typographical features in nroff/troff today which you don't get in web browsers: ligatures and hyphenation for example. Then of course there's the argument that "formatting flexibility" isn't a good thing for reference manuals -- you want them to look similar no matter who wrote them. (Not that all man pages look similar in reality, but there are some pretty decent conventions which most follow). /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
