Roelof Berg <rb...@berg-solutions.de> writes: > I had a look at the idea of writing manpages manually (as upstream) and > unfortunately saw some difficulties: Because OpenBSD and Linux use > different *roff syntax, man vs. mdoc, if I understodd it correctly, > generating the man pages in the syntax of the actual operating system > would be the most portable way (everyone: correct me if I'm wrong). I > don't want to favor Linux or BSD or Windows (just kidding :) in the > source tarball.
Many people use some higher-level / more-recent markup language like rst, markdown, or POD. This adds another build-dependency, but means that it's the responsibility of translator (e.g. rst2man, pod2man) to generate appropriate roff. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
