[MPlayer-DOCS] Proposal: split manpages

[Carl Fûrstenberg]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:55:53 -0400, D Richard Felker III
<dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 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
> 
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first we have row 4762 to 7133 that is mencoder only, then it's a lot
of sections marked mplayer only. also it's many places thats marked
only suitable in mplayer/mencoder.

I just proposed to split out everything that was mencoder only to a own manpage.