Re: gtk man pages

[David Nečas <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 08:47:01PM +0800, Edward Smith Gtk wrote:
> I have found the html doc on GTK on the www.gtk.org, but as an habit, the manpage is more attractive to me.
> So I search the Web for the gtk manpage package. (I use the ubuntu 9.04) 
> I installed the libglib2.0-doc and libgtk2.0-doc package. but it seems to have no relationship with the gtk manpage.
> I wanna install the gtk manpage, is there anything I missed?

There is no *the* gtk man page.  While the documentation is
written/generated in DocBook which permits generation of man page output
format and a bugzila enhancement request exists

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467488

for man page generation by gtk-doc, the ready-to-read format is HTML.

And I doubt Gtk+ will start distributing man pages in addition to HTML
as man pages do not seem suitable for documentation of this extent and
structure (you cannot link to a specific part of a man page, for
example).

So, use devhelp to read the HTML.

Yeti