John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff? > > Most of us use text editors to write man pages.
I was actually going to do something like `cat /dev/audio > file.1', but now you got me thinking... ;^) > While I won't say that it _couldn't_ be done with troff, I certainly > don't know how. Oh, we're being *so* witty! > As for the question in your subject, if it isn't an nroff source > file, it isn't a man page. Thank you for pointing out three obvious things, you are very helpful! But... Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. It's just that I find writing in straight troff format a pain. I was looking for a different _formatting language_ to write a man page in, later to be converted into troff by some _tool_. Joey Hess suggested `pod', and after a quick look into the documentation it seems like the kind of thing I was looking for. -- Arcady Genkin Thanks God I'm still an atheist! -- Luis Bunuel
