On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:20:03PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > The first step would be to ensure that the man page is in-step with the > Texinfo manual; currently I believe the man page is a couple steps > behind. the content is essentially the same between them, so for the > most part you should actually be able to compare them side-by-side for > differences. Tedious work, obviously.
Surely texinfo can be automatically converted into a roff manpage? > Actually, though, as it stands, a big-hulking man page strikes me as > remarkably untraditional. The GNU convention would be to have a simple one- or two-page manpage, which includes a SYNOPSIS and a brief DESCRIPTION and then says "use info for the complete manual". IMO this is a reasonable approach. How do other stakeholders feel? _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
