Re: Fun side-project: help text and man page from XML

2012-09-14 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 22:04:10 +0200: > It might be hard to write help pages that work well as both a tutorial > and a reference, but I believe it's worth trying. Some projects have have separate "Reference Manuals" and "User Guides / Tutorials" (eg: Vim, Python). Maybe th

Re: Fun side-project: help text and man page from XML

2012-09-14 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 07:45:06PM +0100, Julian Foad wrote: > I was recently thinking how much nicer it would be if we could ship 'man' > pages that contain useful descriptions rather than just saying (currently) > 'please see the built-in help or the book'.  It's not a terrible problem as > it