[TUHS] man Macro Package and pdfmark

CHARLES KESTER corky1951 at comcast.net
Tue Feb 18 07:06:27 AEST 2020


> On February 17, 2020 at 12:13 PM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 1:56 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> >     > From: Jon Steinhart
> >
> >     > When you're looking for the documentation for pdf2svg, for example,
> > and
> >     > there is no man page, how long does it take to figure out that there
> > is
> >     > no documentation at all?
> >
> > I am _sooo_ tempted to say 'What do you think source is for?' :-)
> >
> >         Noel
> >
> Ah, the old 'trust (read) the source Luke' defense ....

... which, unfortunately, is all too often invoked by people who fail
to honor the obligation it imposes to write clear, understandable code.


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