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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: Manpage (was Re: Burning question (or wish))
From:       Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka () sienet ! hu>
Date:       1999-04-27 1:15:10
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Jan Prikryl wrote:
> Quoting Peter Lebbing (peter@digitalbrains.com):
> > Hey! Why isn't that in the man page! :-)
> Because the manpage is hopelessly outdated and it is an overkill to
> maintain documentation in both TROFF and GNU Info formats. 

Absolutely not. This is usually done (in the last 3-4 years) using
sgml then generating the man, info, html pages, PS, etc from it.
Another way is YODL (more intuitive than sgml and designed to be easy
to use, even so extensible), e.g. zsh uses it.

	Szaka

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