On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:36:31 +0200
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> I don't see any practical relevance to the question where exactly the
> boundary between the "user manual" and the "reference manual" part
> is.
I'm not sure what you're saying. If you mean you don't know how you
would divide the curre
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 03:08:04 +1000
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
> At 2020-06-14T14:40:44+1000, John Gardner wrote:
> > Why are we using Info, again? Was it because of GNU policy?
>
> Yes. https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#GNU-Manuals
>
> Aside from the mandate of the source doc
Well said, James. Fully agreed on all points.
> A convenient GUI viewer -- with hyperlinks and proportional fonts --
> would "advertise" groff and cement its position as the best free
> documenation system there is, bar none.
I started work on such a thing. Basically, it's an Electron-based front
At 2020-06-30T04:18:00+1000, John Gardner wrote:
> Groff *can* generate high-quality manuals, it *can* generate HTML
> output, and it *can* generate indexes — AFAIK, the only thing it
> *can't* do that Texinfo can is compile binary `.info` files. But even
> that could be achieved by adding a new po
Hi James,
James K. Lowden wrote on Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 09:45:17AM -0400:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:36:31 +0200 Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> I don't see any practical relevance to the question where exactly the
>> boundary between the "user manual" and the "reference manual" part
>> is.
> I'm not su
