Generation process for cpp.1

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:16:25PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2000, "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > The manpage cpp.1 is created from cpp.texi using contrib/texi2pod.pl plus
> > pod2man and hand adjustments
> 
> Maybe we should use help2man instead, so that the man-page contains
> just the list of available options and points to the manual for more
> information?

help2man should be used only if no other alternative exists, IMO.  Its
output provides less information than a proper man page should have,
and is condescending to boot.

zw