[openbeos] Re: Checkins
- From: "Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 01:40:13 -0800 PST
"Matthijs Hollemans" <matthijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If I may be so humble as to suggest using XML . . .
>
> What are we talking about here? Just the man pages, or other documentation?
>
> As far as the man pages are concerned, they are traditionally written in
> troff (or nroff or whatever it is called). There are plenty tools to convert
> that format to HTML and probably also other formats. Why change that?
>
> -Matthijs
>
This is true, and if anyone hadn't noticed:
/boot/beos/documentation/Shell Tools
Documentation for over 150 shell commands is below this subdirectory, all in
html from the troff/
nroff format. (including a 223 KB file on bash!) In the html comments it even
documents the
program that did the conversion.
Andrew
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