Re: [Groff] troff(1) and info

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 11:28:08AM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:45:27PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Man pages are IMHO not better than texinfo due to missing hyperlink
> > support in most man pagers.
> 
> That's not true any longer.  The KDE and Gnome help systems introduced
> a URI man:command(1) that integrates man pages into the internet 
> browsers.  groff could extend and implement this by tuning the linking
> in grohtml.

Ideally this would be supplemented by adding the pdfMarks Ted was
talking about by default. It would probably be easiest to make the URI
prefix (e.g. "man:", "http://foo.example.com/man/";) configurable.

> The reverse parser rman tried to retrieve man page references within
> man pages if these kept to man(7).  tkman uses this very effectively,
> test it.  Unfortunately, due to dull licenses, both packages are not 
> considered free.

The package that Debian calls rman (PolyglotMan, formerly RosettaMan) is
under the Artistic License, as is tkman. This is arguably free: Debian
thinks it is, GNU thinks it isn't. At any rate it's free enough that we
can look at its implementation without great problems.

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden