[GRASS-dev] Manpage HTML markup consistency

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Tue Feb 26 01:27:42 EST 2008


Dylan Beaudette wrote:

> I wonder if now would be a good time to investgate the use of CSS in the man 
> pages. If we define a couple types of "container" objects (<div>, <span>, 
> etc) we can use a single style file to later manipulate the look and feel of 
> the manual pages.

If you're going to overhaul the documentation, I suggest going all the
way and using something which is intended to be used as a source for
multiple formats (at least HTML and nroff, with one or more of TeX,
PDF and PostScript as options), e.g. DocBook.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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