From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: POSIX.1-2013 man pages for review Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:16:16 -0500 Message-ID: <1380669376.1974.124@driftwood> References: <523AAEEE.5090602@gmail.com> <523AB978.2080607@barfooze.de> <523C48EF.5080309@barfooze.de> <20130920175410.GA1092@gauss> <523D8F06.9060801@barfooze.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <523D8F06.9060801-Am5OCHYCrcUb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org> (from maillist-musl-Am5OCHYCrcUb1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org on Sat Sep 21 07:20:22 2013) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: Felix Janda , John Spencer , mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, "linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Andrew Josey , Rich Felker , Matthew Dempsky List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org 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. Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html