Re: Fw: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip

[Stewart Russell]

Meg McRoberts wrote:
> Just a sideways thought, but it seems to me that we should be modifying
> the man command so it can read HTML-formatted man pages.

isn't that the wrong way up? Converting from one arbitrary 
presentational markup to another is difficult to maintain, for someone 
will always find a new way to represent space between paragraphs, be it 
CSS or <p>&nbsp;</p>

Solaris's silent docbook to manpage pleasantly surprised me the first 
time I noticed it. Red Hat's similar technology would impress me more if 
they had more things with manual pages -- is it me, or does anyone miss 
the ability to do 'man <whatever>' on these newer distros?

 Stewart