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Re: [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere
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Jorgen Grahn |
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Re: [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere |
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Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:43:31 +0100 |
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On Tue Feb 11 20:26:48 2003, address@hidden wrote:
> Yes, man pages seem to be an inherently conservative
> institution. Over the years I've heard a lot of people
> suggest ways to improve their usability, but ultimately
> it comes down to the fact that what is familiar is considered
> most usable...
Yes. And when you look at API references written by people who obviously
have never read a section three man page, you almost always find them vastly
inferior to an average man page. I'm looking at one such monster
(autogenerated HTML/JavaScript) right now...
It's not just familiarity -- the man page format is fairly good, and a lot
if people have failed while trying inventing something better.
/Jorgen
--
// Jörgen Grahn "And then the design was ignored, and small children
\X/ <address@hidden> with crayons were given the O'Reilly Perl books and
told to Create. And lo, it was done."
-- Teo de H, in ASR
- [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere, Larry Kollar, 2003/02/11
- Re: [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere, Meg McRoberts, 2003/02/11
- Re: [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere,
Jorgen Grahn <=
- Re: [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere, Meg McRoberts, 2003/02/12
- Re: [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere, Larry Kollar, 2003/02/12
- Re: [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere, Colin Watson, 2003/02/13
- Re: [Groff] manpages, manpages everywhere, Meg McRoberts, 2003/02/19