Hi Colin,
Colin Watson wrote on Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 09:41:02PM +:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 07:53:34PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Eric S. Raymond wrote on Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 12:15:35PM -0500:
>>> Where I want us to be is that when users call man(1) the normal
>>> behavior is to render
Hi Ingo,
> Colin wrote:
> > I think it makes more sense to make sure man:foo and similar URLs do
> > sensible things in all the browsers people use. While there are
> > exceptions, if you want to see something in a browser, it's usually
> > more natural to start from that browser's URL bar.
>
>
Hi Ingo,
> There is also an updated version by Gunnar Ritter, 15 years younger,
> i.e. from 2007: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/troff.pdf
Interesting.
> The Plan 9 troff(1) manual cites:
>
> B. W. Kernighan, ``A TROFF Tutorial'', Unix Research System
> Programmer's Manual, Te
On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:55:08 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> What we have now in the Linux/Unix documentation world is a large
> pre-hypertext pile of documents with no link structure (manual pages)
> and a smaller, weirder one (info) with a sort-of half-assed link
> structure. My goal is to lev
James K. Lowden :
> On Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:55:08 -0500
> "Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
>
> > What we have now in the Linux/Unix documentation world is a large
> > pre-hypertext pile of documents with no link structure (manual pages)
> > and a smaller, weirder one (info) with a sort-of half-assed link
