Re: [TUHS] man Macro Package and pdfmark

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:22 AM Doug McIlroy &lt;doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu&gt; wrote: 😂 But I appplaud the intent to assure man pages are complete. The problem is that too many of the gnu style man pages are just written in the key of -> "see figure one <https://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html>" as documents telling you to go to info (which I find maddening). [I find it similar to ITS not accepting a BS as the correction character, but instead picking it up and then telling you to use DEL -- the designers know what you want, sigh]. I'd like simple man pages that are reasonable references. And then get the rest of the needed documentation out info and the weird hyper texting stuff into a paper (so you can read it linearly - the way we were taught as children). I loved the simple prose in the papers that usually accompanied the traditional UNIX programs/tools. I read them and reread them as I learned to use the features and concepts provided by the more complicated tools. After that, the simple man pages were more than sufficient to remind me of the specifics I needed to use some features I did not use every day. Clem One of my complaints with info is that as a format, it leads to documents that does neither well. They tend not to be reference documents like man pages as you point out, but they are moisty often than not, particularly good explanations either. Sigh...