manpages is mdoc(7)
Jan Stary
hans at stare.cz
Thu Mar 30 19:26:15 UTC 2017
On Mar 30 19:08:44, hans at stare.cz wrote:
> I propose to rewrite them into the _semantic_ markup of mdoc(7) language.
On Mar 30 20:59:31, raimue at macports.org wrote:
> Our man pages are actually written in AsciiDoc and then converted to the roff
> output. We only maintain the generated roff output in the repository to solve
> the problem of installing base without any external dependencies.
>
> Changing the output format would require
> adjusting the corresponding DocBook XSL stylesheets [...]
Just forget it. My intentions when proposing the mdoc(7) rewrite
were the opposite of having asciidoc and docbook and xml/xsl ...
Jan
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