20 Nov
2018
20 Nov
'18
12:52 p.m.
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
I think that's somewhat backwards in he spirit of
'UNIX'... the man and
info pages should reference the manual in /usr/doc/foo/
The goal for Info was to *be* the equivalent of /usr/doc/foo. Along the
way the default for Info changed to go to the 'invoking' section of a
manual so that you saw the options, arguably the most immediately
useful part of a man page, attempting to give the user the best of both
worlds.
All that said, I think this topic has been beaten to death. Info
did not successfully replace man pages. As a file format, I think
that Info has very little left to offer.
What I do *love* is the Texinfo markup language, which is wonderful
for producing book-style documents. And what's nice is that a
single input file can produce PDF, HTML and DocBook (as well as Info).
Arnold