Re: Documentation

[Nils Barth <nbarth fas harvard edu>]

Thus spake Miguel de Icaza:
> 
> > Here's a novel concept for gnome documentation:
> > 
> > GNOME NEEDS MAN PAGES.
> > 
> > Wether anyone likes it or not, man pages are still the #1 source of
> > documentation for commands on all Unix platforms, including Linux and
> > FreeBSD, though even more so on non-OSS Unix variants.
> 
> If you had checked gnome-list, you would have noticed I have been
> advocating this for a few weeks.

?? I can't find any mention of it on the gnome-list archives from
December or November -- where should I look?

> Solaris even converted all their man pages into SGML and now they ship
> an DocbookSGML-aware man command

This is intriguing -- how does this work/do you have a reference for
this?

-- 
  -nils