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Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Michael Sanders

Re: Usage/Help Screen Conventions

13 Nov 25 05:55:28

   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:53:49 -0000 (UTC), Michael Sanders wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:45:10 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> Why is it a better idea to write up proper documentation separately?   
   >>   
   >> Because a common format like a man page can be easily repurposed, e.g.   
   >> to generate a nicely-typeset PDF file. Bit tricky to do that with   
   >> comments or messages embedded in your code.   
   >   
   > txt? pdf? html? man? doc?   
      
   They can all be generated from groff -man.   
      
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