From: Rob Landley <rob-VoJi6FS/r0vR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Felix Janda <felix.janda-1KBjaw7Xf1+zQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>,
John Spencer
<maillist-musl-Am5OCHYCrcUb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>,
mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
"linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
<linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
Andrew Josey <ajosey-7882/jkIBncuagvECLh61g@public.gmane.org>,
Rich Felker <dalias-/miJ2pyFWUyWIDz0JBNUog@public.gmane.org>,
Matthew Dempsky <matthew-bfSpyvURsAhAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: POSIX.1-2013 man pages for review
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:16:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380669376.1974.124@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523D8F06.9060801-Am5OCHYCrcUb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org> (from maillist-musl-Am5OCHYCrcUb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org on Sat Sep 21 07:20:22 2013)
On 09/21/2013 07:20:22 AM, John Spencer wrote:
> On 09/20/2013 07:54 PM, Felix Janda wrote:
>> John Spencer wrote:
...
>> much more likely to me that one can produce output
>> which makes your man implementation happy. The equations are already
>> hacked to make them better suitable for nroff.
>
> i agree that the output of tbl is even worse...
>
> btw my research on http://www.troff.org/papers.html revealed that tbl
> and eqn preprocessors existed back in the troff days, so this seems
> to be a historical mistake rather than groff's fault ;)
Eric Raymond's doclifter project was a python script that parsed man
pages to produce docbook output. There's more horrible domain-specific
knowledge encoded into that than you can possibly imagine, you might
want to poke esr-4uCgticg2UFBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org to see if he wants to comment on your
thing.
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2013-09-19 7:59 POSIX.1-2013 man pages for review Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <523AAEEE.5090602-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-19 8:44 ` John Spencer
[not found] ` <523AB978.2080607-Am5OCHYCrcUb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-19 11:00 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[not found] ` <CAKgNAki+jTS9rkORvcPNxWcStNjnNTnt_jqBYcfoaYm7d4GxqQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-19 17:47 ` Felix Janda
2013-09-20 13:09 ` John Spencer
[not found] ` <523C48EF.5080309-Am5OCHYCrcUb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-20 17:50 ` Simon Paillard
2013-09-20 17:54 ` Felix Janda
2013-09-21 12:20 ` John Spencer
[not found] ` <523D8F06.9060801-Am5OCHYCrcUb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-09-22 19:25 ` Felix Janda
2013-09-24 13:30 ` John Spencer
2013-10-01 23:16 ` Rob Landley [this message]
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2013-12-09 17:58 Xose Vazquez Perez
[not found] ` <52A604CD.6040502-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-01-04 10:17 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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