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Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage
From: |
Sudipto Mallick |
Subject: |
Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 21:16:20 +0530 |
On 12/26/20, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree that *roff syntax is simultaneosly concise,
> writable, and readable, whereas texinfo is a huge
> package with a verbose syntax and dependencies on
> LaTeX and other third-party formatters. That said,
> *roff would be the natural choice for TCC because of
> its similar minimalist ideology, but since the offi-
> cial documentaion tool for TCC is Texinfo, I fear
> your good effort will not appreciated...
Hmm. I am just asking for the change only of the manpage, not the
whole documentation. The documentation and manpage can be kept in sync
without much problem, I think.
I am new here, I do not know whose approval I need to push the
changes. Whom to ask for approval?
>> There's also texi2mdoc which is written in C, but
>> I haven't tried that.
> That means using the makrup language from a large
> system, but converting into the language of a sim-
> pler system by means of a C program. Everybody will
> not like it... I think that using Texinfo directly
> is better.
Well... Same with the current texi2pod.pl.
except for being written in C means texi2mdoc do not need an external
dependency :-)
--Sudipto