On 2023-09-24 05:37, Dennis German wrote:
> After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why
> aren't the man pages standardized to HTML format?
The official documentation for GNU Coreutils is the
texinfo pages, not man pages.
Info renders to HTML. The HTML doc for GNU Coreutils is
hosted here
On 9/25/23 01:25, Dennis German wrote:
> I'd like to understand why you feel that
> " ability to view the source as-is, with no rendering applied"
> is important
Because that is how software development is done. It's all about
changes to some kind of text, be it either program source code or
doc
On 2023-09-25 01:25, Dennis German wrote:
@arsen: thanks for the reference to
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/TODO.HTML
@berny: ... man pages are available online in HTML format:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
These pages are only partially in HTML format , not addressing:
OK, ya learn something every day, at least I try to.
The documentation at
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html
looks really good ! Examples and explanation.
Some extra begin/end quote (noise) and somewhat extra spacey with
option (multiple double spaced) on a sepa
Dragan Simic writes:
> On 2023-09-24 15:47, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> On 9/24/23 14:37, Dennis German wrote:
>>> After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man pages
>>> standardized to HTML format?
>>> Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
>
On 2023-09-24 15:47, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 9/24/23 14:37, Dennis German wrote:
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man
pages
standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should and fewer use info , but (near
On 9/24/23 14:37, Dennis German wrote:
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man pages
standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone uses a browser.
Sorry, I don't g
On 2023-09-24 14:47, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
Dennis German writes:
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man
pages
standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should
and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone u
On 2023-09-24 14:37, Dennis German wrote:
After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man
pages standardized to HTML format?
Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they
should and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone uses a browser.
Are you imply
Dennis German writes:
> After the years and fine tuning of basic HTML, why aren't the man pages
> standardized to HTML format?
>
> Perhaps some users don't frequently enough reference man pages as they should
> and fewer use info , but (nearly) everyone uses a browser.
>
> And I don't mean prog
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