Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Rob Browning
"Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, show me how to search a HTML version of the bash info documentation > for a concept and I'll believe you. Absolutely, anything without regex and incremental search is broken and unacceptable for documentation purposes (IMO). -- Rob -- TO UN

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
[ CC'ed to Christian for policy question, and to Manoj for VM example. ] Marco> Ask the users! The most people hate the info format and it's Marco> browsers. We should include the HTML documentation in the package. But they get html via the dwww package! Which gives them _more_ documentation

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk> However, Christian Schwarz asked me to do html as well. That will be Dirk> some work as HOWTO packages comes as tar.gz files with no Dirk> surcompassing index.html. I'll have to do some perl hacking. No Dirk> promises for the June release, maybe for July. Christian> Just unpack

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 20 Jun 1997, Marco Budde wrote: > SVD> The simplest solution is to ship html in a different package. This way > SVD> the user will be able to choose to not install the html docs if he/she > SVD> believes info2www is enough. > > Ask the users! The most people

Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Marco Budde
Am 16.06.97 schrieb sanvila # unex.es ... Moin Santiago! SVD> The simplest solution is to ship html in a different package. This way SVD> the user will be able to choose to not install the html docs if he/she SVD> believes info2www is enough. Ask the users! The most people hate the info format a

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "MB" == Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MB: The most beginners don't like info because there's no good MB: browser. I would vote for texi2html because it look's much MB: better than info2html and the user doesn't need a WWW server. There is one good info browser: GNU Ema

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: [snip] > However, Christian Schwarz asked me to do html as well. That will be some > work as HOWTO packages comes as tar.gz files with no surcompassing > index.html. I'll have to do some perl hacking. No promises for the June > release, maybe for July

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Lars> It was decided many moons ago that Debian would use HTML as its Lars> primary on-line documentation format. HTML should be the default. Marco> That's right. But a lot of important packages like doc-linux don't Marco> use HTML. Well, the maintainer (that's me) prefers info as the b

Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-19 Thread Marco Budde
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. Fo