On Thu, Mar 06, 2014, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > What we can do, though, is look for ways to (a) reduce the inventory of > low-level troff requests a man-page renderer has to support, and (b) > further enrich the semantic content so that renderers can do a better > job without having to ve as complex as doclifter. > > No, I don't have anything specific in mind for (b) yet.
I suspect b) is going to be a thorny issue when it comes around. Should be interesting. No denying the need; it'll all hang on the implementation and how it impacts the writing of future manpages. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
