Hi Ingo,
> > I don't want to replace the man utility, or groff as manpage
> > formatter for everything. (groff.7 and groff_ms.7 are two examples
> > of files mandoc can't render.)
>
> The best way to deal with that is to make your packaging system
> install manual pages that use some of the more arcane groff extensions
> not supported by mandoc, or some gory low-level roff(7) not supported
> by mandoc, as preformatted files rather than as source code.
In the manner of `catman'? That's been redundant since terminals varied
in their number of columns?
> Not useful at all. First, it cannot be done because you don't know
> the user's terminal width at database build time, so you don't know
> output line numbers [for the tag file].
The tag file only uses line numbers? It could specify the text from the
start of the line for a bit, tag files can find the Nth occurrence of a
pattern, e.g.
abc foo /^abc/;/
Cheers, Ralph.
