On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:50, Todd Zullinger wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> I hear a hearty chorus of Amen's to that. Frankly, linux >> documentation is in far worse shape than it was in 1997, mostly >> because of the forking away from the universal manpage that has been >> done to the doc format. I don't know of the times I've needed to >> look at something in docbook format, even coming to this list to ask >> what others are using to view/print those things, and have been >> universally ignored, I assume because everyone is supposed to know >> WTF a docbook file is. Heck, just a simple little menu choice called >> "docbook reader" would suit 99% of this, but in the 5 years since >> everyone got on that bandwagon, I've yet to see a reference that >> says what is to be used to read them with. > >Can you give some examples of when you find a need to read raw docbook >documentation? I thought that docbook was for creating xml or sgml >that would be converted to another format for end-user viewing. See >the docbook2... commands in the docbook-utils package. > >In the case of the difference between the -X and -Y options to ssh, >the format of the documentation isn't at all the issue, it's the >content I believe Les was referring to. yes, the format was entirely incidental to the amazing lack of content. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
