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Re: Adding the "links" text mode web browser to the base system



On Nov 2, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> That's more a reason to provide a smarter frontend than catpages.
> I should say that I would like the latter to go once the remaining main
> issues with mdocml are fixed. That are namely lack of branch support
> (libm!) and the tbl integration. Supporting e.g. cross-references in a
> curses frontend would be much easier to do then.

That would be cool, but still leaves the issue of a decent GUI man page reader. 
 So, mandoc markup for terminal-based reading and HTML markup for GUI-based 
reading?  Seems like a waste.

-- thorpej



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