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Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Apr 2017 17:25:40 +0100 |
Hi Branden,
> > Besides, i did not even try to list ad-hoc non-roff man(7) parsers.
>
> This may warrant another thread, but how many of _those_ are still
> alive?
There's https://manned.org/
It's useful because it has man pages from many different systems, and
saves having to install a large package just to help someone else. It's
author, Yoran Heling, responds to emails and implements changes
promptly. It uses groff(1), but not man(1) IIRC.
> docbook-to-man seems to poison everyone who touches it. It was cast
> over the wall by Oasis/OPEN in 1996, picked up by David Bolen in 1999,
> and the only people to hack on since then are the Debian folks, and
> even there the package has been orphaned multiple times, the latest
> since 2014.
Well, that's good in a way if programmers can come to recognise the
better quality output from non-Docbook man pages from -man or -mdoc and
ditch Docbook. :-)
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, Doug McIlroy, 2017/04/25
- [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild [LONG] (was: Nesting font macros in man pages), G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/26
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild [LONG] (was: Nesting font macros in man pages), G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/26
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, aksr, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/27
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/29
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild, Ingo Schwarze, 2017/04/29
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild,
Ralph Corderoy <=
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild [LONG], Ralph Corderoy, 2017/04/30
- Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild [LONG], G. Branden Robinson, 2017/04/30
Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages, address@hidden, 2017/04/26