From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 05:16:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id FAA26474 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 05:16:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.34.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA26469 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 05:16:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.3/8.8.2) with ESMTP id FAA13053; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 05:15:27 -0800 (PST) From: Josh MacDonald Message-Id: <199701121315.FAA13053@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: proff@suburbia.net cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Jan 1997 23:25:07 +1100." <19970112122508.4166.qmail@suburbia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <13046.853074900.1@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 05:15:07 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > In reply to J Wunsch who wrote: > > > As Josh MacDonald wrote: > > [..] > > AMEN!!, we _dont_ need info files, make the man pages (as god intended > > them to be) or at least HTML... Uhh, not. Man pages lose for anything more complicated than the description of one library function. But I use texi2html occasionally to put documentation on the web. Does it meet your requirements? Here's some info from its man page: VERSION This is texi2html version 1.47, 03/11/96. The latest version of texi2html can be found in WWW, cf. URL http://wwwcn.cern.ch/dci/texi2html/ AUTHOR The main author is Lionel Cons, CERN CN/DCI/UWS, Lionel.Cons@cern.ch. Many other people around the net contributed to this program. > When all gnu info pages are convereted to HTML and html will handle info styl >e > indexing, footnotes and xrefs, I'll agree with you. >