16 May
2018
16 May
'18
1:48 a.m.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 09:45:08AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2018, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
+1 - DocBook does nothing for me but it appears that I'm losing that argument.
The kids will get the mess they deserve I suppose.
Eric S. Raymond has a long-term plan underway to
get all man-page source
moved to DocBook or asciidoc using his doclifter program, and convincing
projects to make the switch. Unfortunately, some have. DocBook stinks
and it shows how long the project has been going that Eric chose it back
when it and XML were still shiny.
I like the manpage format! It tells me everything I need to know, in the
correct order, and it's in good old plain ASCII...