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Re: man pages & info prefer HTML format
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Bernhard Voelker |
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Re: man pages & info prefer HTML format |
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Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:47:50 +0200 |
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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 get the point.
HTML might be nice to read, but it's cumbersome to write.
Authors do not want to care about formatting too much.
Therefore, the documentation - both the man pages and the Texinfo manual -
is maintained in formats which are easy to write and track.
Besides viewing them with their principal reader (man, info, pinfo, ..),
those formats allow the conversion to several other nice formats ... among them
HTML.
The Texinfo manual is rendered into various formats: HTML, PDF, DVI, ASCII.
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/
And also the man pages are available online in HTML format:
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
Have a nice day,
Berny