Hi Werner, Werner LEMBERG wrote on Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 02:05:05PM +0200: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> However, `info' is the official GNU documentation format, and its >>> indexing system is quite good, something groff's output formats >>> don't provide. >> Actually, mdoc(7) indexing is more powerful than info(1) indexing: >> >> http://man.openbsd.org/?query=Ft,Fa~[ug]id_t&apropos=1 >> >> Documentation: >> >> http://man.openbsd.org/apropos > I rather meant indexing *within* a single document. By their very > nature, man pages don't need that because everything is on a single > page. The same argument applies. Take a large manual, for example ksh(1). With the mandoc-based implementation of man(1), type $ man ksh Then inside less(1), type :t read to jump straight to the description of the "read" builtin command, while /read is almost useless for the same purpose. That is a virtue of mdoc(7) which, AFAIK, info(1) cannot keep up with. So while i agree that indexing is irrelevant for cat(1) and true(1) and the like, it is useful and works with mdoc(7) in large manuals. Yours, Ingo
