Hi Branden, > > Besides, i did not even try to list ad-hoc non-roff man(7) parsers. > > This may warrant another thread, but how many of _those_ are still > alive?
There's https://manned.org/ It's useful because it has man pages from many different systems, and saves having to install a large package just to help someone else. It's author, Yoran Heling, responds to emails and implements changes promptly. It uses groff(1), but not man(1) IIRC. > docbook-to-man seems to poison everyone who touches it. It was cast > over the wall by Oasis/OPEN in 1996, picked up by David Bolen in 1999, > and the only people to hack on since then are the Debian folks, and > even there the package has been orphaned multiple times, the latest > since 2014. Well, that's good in a way if programmers can come to recognise the better quality output from non-Docbook man pages from -man or -mdoc and ditch Docbook. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
