Re: [Groff] Building a troff parser

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Eric,

> $ explain "rm -rf *"
> rm -rf *
> └── rm       remove files or directories
>     ├── -r   remove directories and their contents recursively
>     ├── -f   ignore nonexistent files, never prompt
>     └── *    Remove (unlink) files matching this text pattern.

(The `text pattern' is actually a `glob', and it's expanded by the
shell, not rm.  Might be worth it getting that point across.)

> Why is doclifter the wrong tool for mdoc(7)? doclifter's documentation
> states it supports mdoc(7).

Ingo's saying that because there's existing code to specifically handle
mdoc parsing AIUI.

Cheers, Ralph.