"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

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> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:58PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 12:38 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>>> Also, there's
>>>> the restriction that we'd like to keep it looking good in plain ascii,
>>>> so diagrams have to be done in ascii somehow.
>>> Hmm, what's the rationale for this?  I'd assume that most people read
>>> the user's manual as a web page (or as bedside reading if they can print
>>> a PDF thereof), where diagrams can be pretty.
>>
>> man pages.
>
> I think he's talking about Documentation/user-manual.txt, which
> isn't turned into man pages.  (Might be nice if it could be though,
> I suppose.)

I think it would be nicer if the man pages could be turned into an
appendix in the user manual.

I had no success in persuading the toolchain to do that, however.
_WAY_ above my head to figure out the interaction of Docbook, Asciidoc
and similar in order to achieve that effect.

-- 
David Kastrup

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