[haiku] Re: GRRR! [was: Re: Man]

  • From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:14:17 +0200

On 2010-08-31 at 07:51:13 [+0200], Siarzhuk Zharski <zharik@xxxxxx> wrote:

[ ... ]
> 
> What do you think about following:
> a) Provide "man->html" data translator to let the GUI browsers to use
> man pages directly from the Tracker;

The problem I see with the man->html step is that it only works well for 
single-"page" documentation, but what you don't get is navigability across 
pages. And for large documentation packages (gcc, perl), being able to 
browse the documentation by activating links is highly desirable. 

Anyone remembers that BeOS' gcc documentation came in one huge "page" (i.e. 
file)? Not nice to use at all.

cheers,
        Oliver

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