* Dave Ihnat [Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:21:51PM -0600]:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 02:16:38AM +0200, Johannes Eriksson wrote:
> > ...there is a gtk program
> > called ManEdit out there ... and it uses an XML manual page format
> > instead of the horrible groff/troff format.
>
> Uh...but doesn't that break man(1)? If so, it's worthless.
>
> Extend man to read XML, cool. (BTW, "horrible groff/troff format"--bunky,
> that's effectively the same as HTML. In-line markup language; anyone who
> wrote *roff waltzed into HTML.)
>
> *BREAK* man, just to introduce another markup, and it's a bad thing.
>
Manedit saves and reads regular man page files. The XML is only for
*editing*, because it's an easy to use mark-up language and provides
some logical structure (sections).
--
Johannes Er
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