From: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
... though how would I read man pages in pdf
format? I tried searching the web and all I can find is how
to convert the a man page to pdf. So is there a conveniant
way to tell `man` to prefer opening pdfs when available?
I presume that "man -Tpdf git.1" is not what you are looking for, as
that would literally be how you get the manpages in PDF format?
I'd expect 'git help --pdf git' to simply feed the path of git.pdf
(probably in the same directory as the .html versions) to the web
browser and let it determine the users prefered reader.
Personally, I honestly am not quite sure why anybody wants to
generate manpages in the PDF format like this patch does, unless
they are planning to print them on paper, in which case the existing
manpages (git.1 and friends) or html pages (git.html and friends)
should be an already available source format.
--
Despite the scare stories and problems that pdf format can bring it is
quite popular as a way of 'freezing' what is displayed (I use it a lot
to capture web confirmations;-), so I don't see it as being too
outlandish, though I wouldn't expect the project to automatically
generate the pdfs in the same way the man and web pages are.
--
Philip
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