From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 07:42:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA02378 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 07:42:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (0@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA02371 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 07:42:53 -0800 (PST) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA01747; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 10:42:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA18539; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 10:44:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 10:44:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701121544.KAA18539@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> X-Mailer: slnr v.2.13 as ported to FreeBSD To: eivind@dimaga.com cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In Email, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > I'm in favour. I haven't yet seen a good browser for info, and it is pain > to get the ones that exist to even open the files. While we're at it, it > would even be nice to have the man-pages as HTML - not as a replacement > format, but as an alternative. Rewrite them all in docbook, and you'd probably be just about set. I've seen a docbook->man thingy somewhere and I'm sure docbook->html exists, too. -- tIM...HOEk "You really sound as if some XEmacs user has raped your favourite gnu and you want to go with a large flamethrower after all of them." - Erik Naggum