[BRLTTY] Is there still need for the manual to mention drivers in the kernel?

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:

> While looking at the manual (build 3643) I ran across mention of giving 
> driver parameters if the driver was in the kernel or a module (putting them 
> in the LILO config file for example). Is this still pertinent? I've been 
> using brltty for 5 years and I think all this predates any of my experience. 
> Does it serve any purpose other than scare the bejunior out of newbies?

It is probably unneeded information these days.

> Also and not very related, I saw on the internet that the command sgml2txt 
> is "an old and obsoleted form of the linuxdoc -b command." I suppose this is 
> known and just hasn't been worth the bother to change, but it's interesting 
> that the text version of the manual can't really be displayed successfully 
> by less, at least on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (It works but displays hex 
> characters in Stefane Doyon's name among many other places.) The text 
> version is however the best place to look if you have to search for 
> something.

That's because the text version is using the ISO-8859-1 character set 
while your environment is probably expecting UTF-8.  Might be a good 
idea to convert the manual to UTF-8 now as well.


Nicolas