Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:59:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, nik@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org, rnordier@nordier.com, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>, Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Subject: DocBook->*roff (was: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8) Message-ID: <19990806105901.W5126@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199908032225.SAA16506@smtp1.erols.com>; from John Baldwin on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:25:35PM -0400 References: <19990803083741.B58351@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <199908032225.SAA16506@smtp1.erols.com>
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On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 18:25:35 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 03-Aug-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> [ redirect to doc, add nik to cc: ] >> >> * Tim Vanderhoek (vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca) [990803 07:13]: >>> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:37:59AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Arghhhh! Man pages should never use direct *roff command for >>>>> formatting. >>>> >>>> Why not? Because our forefathers did it that way? >>> >>> Because using strictly mdoc will make it easier to change all the >>> manpages to DocBook? >> >> Now this is interesting. >> > <snip> > >> I would like to hear some comments on this because it might truly be the >> way to proceed on, but I still have some doubts and blanks about how to >> realise a few goals. >> >> 'gards, > > DocBook can produce *roff format (to my knowledge), No, unfortunately. It's a wish list item. I took a brief look at it and decided I had better ways to go crazy. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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