In article <[email protected]>, Jorgen Grahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some disagreement here. There are typographical features in > nroff/troff today which you don't get in web browsers: ligatures and > hyphenation for example. Saying that HTML doesn't have ligatures and hyphenation is kind of like saying Python is a bad programming language because it doesn't come in purple. Yes, n/troff does ligatures and hyphenation. Are such things really essential for an on-line reference manual? The ligatures, clearly not, since what most of us are talking about here are the plain-text renditions you get with the on-line "man" output. Hyphenation? I suppose it has some value for this kind of stuff, but it can also be a pain. What happens when you're grepping the man page for "egregious" and can't find it because it got hyphenated? No, those are things you want for typesetting documents, not for browsing on-line reference material. And I can't imagine anybody using troff for typesetting today. I'm sure there are a few people who will pop out of the woodwork insisting they do, but when it comes to typesetting, "I want a tool, not a hobby". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
