Ingo Luetkebohle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, calming down: texinfo has never caught on outside of the GNU area
> apart from very few exceptions. Thats largely due to the
> unfriendliness of the accompanying software and also due to the fact
> that the underlying technology is almost as old as groff is -- ok, it
> can do hypertext. Thats all it has to offer.
Well, there is also the point that the Gnu people wanted to
stop writing everything twice. They generate both info
nodes and printed documentation from the same source files.
Which is not to say that texinfo is the only way of doing it
(certainly not these days). I'm not so sure that the right
thing for them to do is to drop everything and switch to the
latest-greatest-newest most buzzword-compliant file format,
though.
> Its gross arrogance to assume that users will want to learn
> a new way of getting information every other year for no
> other reason than that the authors don't like the old
> anymore -- for reasons which they have to account for
> themselves.
I might suggest that it's kind of arrogant to try and give
orders to unpaid volunteer labor.
If you want to help update the gnu manpages, I'm sure the
FSF wouldn't chase you away.
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