On Friday, September 01, 2000, Callum Lerwick <lerwick at tcfreenet.org> wrote: > > Yeah, those GNU people and their darn info pages. > > It wouldn't be so bad if the standard info browser wasn't freakin' > stupid. Yay pinfo. > > I think the unix documentation system need to be totally rethought. > There's been a lot of advances in typesetting since the 60s. Something > in XML, accessible via web browser, yeah... Well, there is DocBook, which comes in both SGML and XML flavors, and can be converted to a variety of formats, including HTML, PS, PDF, DVI, and probably man and texinfo (not sure about texinfo). Nautilus, the new GNOME file manager/browser will be able to convert DocBook to HTML on the fly, removing the need for a (huge) properly configured SGML environment. John -- dusk at ravendusk.org http://www.gnome.org jsheets at codeweavers.com http://www.worldforge.org http://advogato.org/person/jsheets --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org