[ANNOUNCE] xorg-sgml-doctools-1.2

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:49:25PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> ok, so how do _I_ co-erce the system into showing me this output?  An oft 
> asked, but never answered question so far.  And its been asked 
> intermittently, on many mailing lists, by me, for what 4 or 5 years now?  
> If its so damned popular, why then can no one write a manpage describing 
> how to use it?  Seems like a heck of a good question to me...

./configure && make

> And I'm not consciously trying to be obnoxious, Daniel.  However it is 
> becoming more and more frustrating that the tools all take hard to 
> remember syntax, and one undotted i in the whole src file causes an exit 
> with a generally meaningless error message.  Have enough mercy on us to 
> at least wrap all this up in a bash script called 'manpage' or something 
> similar which only needs $1 to point at the docbook formatted filename, 
> located in a default directory for such files maintained in an agreed 
> upon standard '/some/place' as manpages are now.

I can see you're not trying to be obnoxious, but are you honestly
arguing for manpages instead of DocBook as the raw format, on the
grounds of 'hard to remember syntax'?

Cheers,
Daniel
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