[texhax] insufficient documentation

[Schneider]

Karl:

>     I'm writing to ask that whomeever is responsible for the documentation
>     of this (and perhaps other tex programs) to add a few sentences in
>     plain English that describe what this program actually DOES.
> 
> I will.

Thank you!

> By the way, many many programs (not just in the TeX world) fail to
> include such a "plain English" description in their help message.  Many
> don't have help messages at all.  I wish it were otherwise.

Agreed.  Thanks to all the folks who suggested various things such as
looking at the man page.  Of course that's a source that I use all the
time but had not thought of in this case.  On the other hand, many
programs don't even have man pages.  I find in my own work that
although I have a rigorous way of defining what my programs do
(http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/delila/shell.html) invariably the
documentation is insufficient and always can be improved.  It's a
never-ending task.  (Amusingly I found an obvious improvement to the
shell program when I looked at it just now ...)

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
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  Center for Cancer Research
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