[MPlayer-DOCS] Proposal: split manpages

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Jiri Heryan wrote:
> Torinthiel wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +0200, Carl F?rstenberg wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Tried to find, but no luck, is ther any way to search old archives,
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/s-arch.cgi?sbm=mplayer-dev-eng
> >or
> >http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel
> >
> >And about splitting - if you come with a sensible way of doing it, than
> >maybe. But "sensible" means (as was discussed before) everything needed
> >to use M{Player,Encoder} is in m{player,encoder}.1 (so no
> >mplayer-common.1 or so, and nothing like "see also mplayer.1" in
> >mencoder.1. And it also means no text duplication in CVS, as this will
> >for sure get out of sync. Any ideas? If you have a good one, I can help
> >you with the build system.
> >Torinthiel
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> What about split mplayer.1 into separate files in common format (i.e. 
> XML) by sections (header.xml; ...; codecsopt.xml, etc.). Then you can 
> have one original in cvs and in main files (mplayer.xml; mencoder.xml) 
> will be include commands only.
> 
> Well it's idea only :-)

imo the amount of infor that's _not_ duplicate between mplayer and
mencoder is relatively very small. as such, i don't see a good
justification for splitting the man page..

btw man files are not .xml... :)

rich