Re: [Groff] Applications of \c in man pages in the wild

[Ralph Corderoy]

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.  :-)

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