Hi Peter, > Filtered through a simple sed script, the resulting mom file preserves > all of the semantics, has *no* low-level groff requests, and requires > exactly 4 trivial tweaks (to satisfy my personal aesthetics).
OOI, do you code those tweaks as sed? > [heading 2] "Manpages" > > The need for Unix manuals to render cleanly to multiple output > media favours structural rather than presentational markup, however > the classical [manpage]man[manpage](7) macros remain almost > exclusively presentational. [manpage]mdoc[manpage](7) provides a > semantically superior alternative, but the use of > [manpage]man[manpage](7) is deeply rooted in GNU-based systems. Seems odd to mention GNU here; they've done more damage to man pages with insistence on info(1) than anyone else. Are you thinking of "you must call it GNU/Linux"? I think that should be "Unix-based systems". > The aim will be to ease conversion of manpages to markup languages > that do not rely on groff for display and printing, e.g. xml Not "XML"? Cheers, Ralph.
