Re: [screen-devel] Re: screen maintainer?

[Micah Cowan]

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David Douthitt wrote:
> Adam Lazur wrote:
>> I agree, 2 sets of documentation sucks.
> 
>> The crusty old unix guy inside my head is screaming "DROP THE TEXINFO,
>> IT'S EVIL", but the gnu project probably disagrees ;)
>>   
> I agree on both counts.  I put the man page into my book, and printed a
> version of the Info documentation.  The info documentation is not
> readable in printed form, in my opinion.  Most of it seems to read like
> a reference manual (here's the list of X in alphabetical form) rather
> than a tutorial or introduction (here's how you do X).

David, from this I understand you to be saying that the manpage and the
texinfo document have a difference in style; however, in comparing the
two, I don't see this to be the case: the manpage appears to have all
the very same "here's a list of X in alphabeitcal form" that the texinfo
manual has; and the texinfo page has all of the tutorial-style texts
that the manpage has. In fact, the content is so very similar that I
have to wonder if the manpage was actually generated from the texinfo at
some point; if that's the case, then I'd be very interested in knowing
how this was done.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer,
and GNU Wget Project Maintainer.
http://micah.cowan.name/
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