Doug McIlroy <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu>: > Before jumping headfirst into .hygiene, it would be well to > consider independent style advisors along the lines of Lint or HTML > validators.
I suspect this mail may have crossed a post of mine about defect patterns in the real-world man-page corpus. I thought when I wrote it that would be of *particular* interest to you. URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-03/msg00039.html Summary: the experiment you want done has in fact been running for ten years as a side effect of my work on doclifter. I believe on evidence from the field that we have reached the point where only sterner and more prescriptive measures will advance the game. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
