on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's wrong? Info Sucks And Must Die. > > > > Old but good: > > > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/InfoVsManpage > > Info may not be so great.
RTFL. I cover this. > But most Info files are generated from Texinfo sources. Texinfo is ok. DocBook is far more standard. Texinfo was a good idea at the time. That time has passed. > The only problem as I see it is that it's pretty difficult to use it > for graphical applications. But other than that it's pretty nice. It > converts to info, html, dvi, ps, pdf and is used for all those FSF > books. As does DocBook and man. Deprecating man in favor of Info is _not_ acceptable. Period. Nor does it meet Debian policy. I've spoken to Brad Kuhn about this specifically. > For example if you hate dealing with info RTFL. It's not just the reader. It's the document structure. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? KQED FM: The bright spot on the dial: http://www.kqed.org/fm/
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