passing params to startupitem.executable / portfile.7

[markd at macports.org]

Markus Weissmann <mww at macports.org> writes:
>> Good to hear the idea has some support.  As far as the XML  
>> formatting, it
>> has proved to be difficult to to get man pages from them that are
>> formatted well, and I'm not sure they are formatted all that well  
>> now.  I
>> was surprised at the difficulties we've run into, and I see why most
>> people still use troff.  But I do think that having a single source  
>> for
>> the man pages and docs and the resulting accuracy and ease of keeping
>> updated docs trumps any of the difficulties.  That's my view anyway.
>>
>
>For the esthetics, perhaps we can do something like adding a command  
>to port(1) that opens a generated html-file in a browser (via  
>`open'), like 'port help portfile' -- or just also include a html- 
>version of the "manpages" with port(1).

That sounds like an interesting idea.

Mark