Re: [screen-devel] Screen documentation

[Micah Cowan]

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Juergen Weigert wrote:
> I will advocate to have both man and techinfo, for its a matter of taste.
> We should not force man-lovers into becoming grumpy-texinfo-users or 
> vice versa.
> And I mean having them both with equal contents, so that it is a 
> freedom of choice; 
> not one pointing to the other, so that you have to know both.
> 
> Hyperlinks have their use, though, I wish nroff would allow them.

When I'm writing documentation for my own projects, I usually do prefer
man, at least for reference documentation; or else I do everything in
DocBook (and perhaps generate a manpage from that).

When I'm doing GNU projects... I would probably do just pure Texinfo,
and let man rot, except that I know that some GNU/Linux distributions
(notably Debian) require that all packages have man pages, which means
if I don't write 'em, the package maintainer will have to. :) So I end
up doing both.

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