Re: [Groff] Defect patterns in real-world man-pages

2014-03-05 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Here are some facts about the defect patterns that I think are interesting: > > * There's a perceptible correlation between the origin date of a > page and the (closely correlated) complexity and defect density of > its markup. Older pages have m

[Groff] Defect patterns in real-world man-pages

2014-03-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
At semi-regular intervals through the last twelve years I have run through the man directories of entire full-boat Linux distributions running doclifter on every page and kicking fix patches upstream to clean up markup that cannot be structurally lifted to DocBook. Some individual portions of the