Hi,

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>
> There's nothing "special" about HTML documentation, or rather about
> the HTML parsing capability of browsers (and servers) that can read
> (and serve) HTML files -- those browsers (and servers) can also all
> read (and serve) many other file formats as well, not just HTML
> files.
>
>
> Unix-style manual pages are segregated for historical reasons (and to
> make indexing and accessing them with "man" somewhat easier).
>
> Info files are segregated because they're one special output format
> generated from a source file that can also be used to generate
> ordinary text files or typeset output suitable for printing.  Info
> files are also not normally viewable by common "web browsers".
>
So what is really needed is a tool to convert man pages to html, and 
insert them into /usr/local/share/doc. as part of the install process. 
You can then set
HTMLMAN="yes" 
in make.conf, and be happy, or dont set it and be BOF ;-)

Of course new docs for Unix specific stuff should continue being 
produced in man format, as a Unix environment might lack any graphical 
interface, but where it has, HTML integrates better, and 
auto-conversion cant be rocket science. HTML is definitely best for 
cross platform.

Perrrsonally, I would go for an INFO to HTML autoconversion - I'm hardly 
ever able to find _and_ view info format docs.

Andrew