Re: [Groff] man pages (tangential to Future Redux)

[Eric S. Raymond]

Tethys <address@hidden>:
> >Where we're probably going is that (a) info will die, to be replaced
> >by HTML browsed from within Emacs, and (b) Texinfo will be replaced by
> >a modern lightweight format that can render to both print and HTML;
> >most likely asciidoc.
> 
> Oh :-( Not great. This sucks for those of us not using Emacs.

How?  Sorry, I don't understand the objection.

>                        At the very least, you need to have
> a fallback scenario where your asciidoc can render to a flat file
> that's readable in the terminal in a pager.

That is already provided for.
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