John Cook quotes The Linux Command Line by William Shotts as singling out the bash man page as the most brutal of all the man pages.
Maybe so, I don’t ever recall trying to read it in its entirety. But I haven’t made a systematic comparison of all the man pages for that matter.
But let’s take Shotts at his word, that the man page for bash is the worse.
Recalling that topic maps got its start in an X Windows documentation project, seems appropriate to see if topic maps could provide an “assist” with the most brutal man page ever.
I get seventy (70) pages as a PDF version of the Ubuntu bash man page. (Not Shotts reported eighty plus (80+) pages.)
A topic map for the bash man page would be of interest only to geeks but hopefully influential geeks. And if nothing else, it would be good warm up to take on something like USC Title 26 and its regulations, court decisions and opinions. 😉 (The tax code of the federal government in the United States.)