Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:25:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -mdoc vs. -man Message-ID: <20071031132459.GC21541@team.vega.ru> In-Reply-To: <20071031103324.GB1795@kobe.laptop> References: <4726A890.5090705@freebsd.org> <20071030131216.GB91078@kobe.laptop> <4727F0AF.4060605@freebsd.org> <20071031103324.GB1795@kobe.laptop>
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:33:24PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-10-30 20:04, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>> I've had some requests from people who want to use the > >>> libarchive and bsdtar manpages on non-BSD systems that don't > >>> support -mdoc. > >>> > >>> Any problems if I reworked these manpages to only require > >>> -man-old for compatibility with these systems? (Other than > >>> the inherent tediousness of such a project, that is.) > >> > >> Yes. At least from me. > > > > All good points. Any leads on software that can convert from > > -mdoc to -man? That would neatly address this issue for me. > > Not really. I haven't really used -man for any substantial > amount of work in years. Maybe Ruslan, who is our groff-guru > knows about something? > I'm not aware of any such tools. But perhaps having formatted versions of manpages (aka catpages) available in the libarchive distribution would be enough. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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