> A man page requires me to read the whole thing before I'm confident of what option I'm looking for, because it's presented as an unstructured list of paramete

> A man page requires me to read the whole thing before I'm confident of what option I'm looking for, because it's presented as an unstructured list of parameters Not necessarily. I can usually easily grep a man page for the keywords I'm looking for. Most users (even beginners) know how to search for words on a single long page of text. In fact, one of the users of my app (a content management system for biologists) has mentioned to me that he prefers to click on plain-text output instead of using default HTML paginated output because he can instantly jump to what he's looking for by using browser text search feature (I plan on providing a Javascript-based word lookup feature in the future to emulate this).