[bug #60061] Narrow scope of groff Texinfo manual

[Deri James]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #60061 (project groff):

I am not sure if you are aware of some work I did awhile ago around making
groff produce the "groff book" rather than Tex

This was a program which converted the texinfo file into a roff file which
could be run through groff with the ms macro to produce the pdf, it also
converts man pages to ms as well. This means that you can embed individual man
pages within the book, rather than maintaining separate texts.

You can see examples of this in the "Preprocessors" section of the book, where
the appropriate man pages have been inserted. I have been using this book for
quite a while since I like all the relevent information in one searchable
tome. The sections which you are considering droppin, to avoid maintaining
multiple versions of similar information, could be populated from their man
pages. Ideally, we could add .ix entries to the man pages so that they get
indexed in the Concepts index as well.

Since this was only ever a personal project, and the results were "good
enough" for my own purposes, you are likely to find little "nits" which can
probably be corrected. Let me know what you think.


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