Re: Writing man pages in anything other than troff

2000-06-22 Thread Felix Natter
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff? maybe texinfo (www.gnu.org->documentation->texinfo) or docbook (www.docbook.org). -- Felix Natter

Re: Writing man pages in anything other than troff

2000-06-18 Thread Colin Watson
Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff? pod2man(1p), as already mentioned, or help2man(1) for some cases. The latter is in the help2man package. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing man pages in anything other than troff

2000-06-18 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff? > > Most of us use text editors to write man pages. I was actually going to do something like `cat /dev/audio > file.1', but now you got me thinking... ;^) > While I won't say that it _c

Re: Writing man pages in anything other than troff

2000-06-18 Thread Joey Hess
Arcady Genkin wrote: > Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff? You can use pod and convert it to a man page later with pod2man. Pod is pretty easy to learn. See perlpod(1). -- see shy jo

Re: Writing man pages in anything other than troff

2000-06-18 Thread John Hasler
Arcady Genkin writes: > Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff? Most of us use text editors to write man pages. While I won't say that it _couldn't_ be done with troff, I certainly don't know how. As for the question in your subject, if it isn't an nroff source file, it

Writing man pages in anything other than troff

2000-06-18 Thread Arcady Genkin
Are there any good tools for writing man pages other than troff? Thanks for any info! -- Arcady Genkin Thanks God I'm still an atheist! -- Luis Bunuel