Ubuntu Manpage Repository Updates!

I wrote a little over a week ago to announce the Ubuntu Manpage Repository.  I must say that the response has been tremendous, thanks to some 600+ Diggs and a slew of responses on the Ubuntu-Devel mailing list.

I received a number of great suggestions for improving the interface and user experience.  Some of the new features now available on manpages.ubuntu.com:

• A real index, with an explanation of navigation and other useful links
• A browser search plug-in (click “install search engine plugin” on the main page)
• A table of contents for each manpage, shown on the far right of the screen
• A more human-readable Arial font for the manpage text (rather than monospace)
• Support for manpages which are actually symbolically linked into place
• Links to all English manpages under en/

I’m still working on:

• Improving support for other, non-English languages
• Improving the search
• Enhancing man itself to retrieve missing manpages via wget/curl

If you have more suggestions, please file a bug in Lauchpad against the ubuntu-manpage-repository project.

ustin