Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1640 mails)

[Kurt Wall <kwall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 30 July 2008 06:49:57 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 22:14, Brian K. White wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Randall R Schulz" <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 11:29 AM
> > Subject: Re: [opensuse] man pages and PDF
> >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > I'm with Duaine.
> > >
> > > HTML is a hideous medium for publishing.

[nod]

> Whatever you say.
>
> But please don't impugn my knowledge of Unix / Linux commands and
> operation.
>
> And, maybe, get a blog for you bloviations.

Indeed.

That said, the command posted for converting man pages to Postscript 
output is quite suitable for print matter. Using PDF or Postscript for 
online documentation is a sorry idea unless you happen to have a system 
that has built-in display Postscript (I'm thinking NEXT, here). For the 
rest of us mere mortals, man is fine. It will work on the most 
primitive 80x25 teletype display. Good luck with viewing PDFs or 
Postscript out on that same 80x25 TTY.

Kurt
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