Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 04:52:06 -0700 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: semi-automated semantic markup? Message-ID: <p06230991c086265b736c@[192.168.254.205]>
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Several years ago, there was some discussion of ways to help automate the process of bringing "old style" man pages into the semantic markup fold. IIRC, all sorts of projects announced their intention to move to DocBook. However, it appears that most projects have chosen, instead, to stick with mandoc (or just to retain their random collection of man macros :-). Anyway, I'm wondering about the available tools for moving fairly arbitrary man pages to mandoc format. Although Eric Raymond's doclifter could be used to turn the pages into DocBook XML, and Steve Cheng's docbook2x can be used to emit troff, this seems like a rather convoluted approach. Comments, clues, suggestions? -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development
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