Re: <OK> Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation

[Eric S. Raymond]

M Bianchi <address@hidden>:
> Since DocBook deduces _meaning_ from the presentation markup

DocBook does nothing of the sort.  It's doclifter that does that.

>                                       then I will claim
> that the correct path needs to be something like ...
>       groff -man  ->  DocBook  +->  HTML
>                                |
>                                +->  groff -man_extended
> 
> where new meaning markup is inserted back into the source document form
> (assuming that  foo.man_extended  becomes the prefered edited file).

I think there would be very little point in this.  

groff markup is presentation-level.  It's good at that.  If you try to
turn it into a structural markup, I predict you will get exactly the
results Bernd Warken already has -- you'll break non-groff viewers
without producing anything that's adequate as a structural
description.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>