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Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?
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Ingo Schwarze |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation? |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:52:50 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
Hi Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy wrote on Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:43:19PM +0100:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, Homebrew, MacPorts, and
>> pkgsrc provide packages that you can install.
> Arch Linux's user repository, AUR, has
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mandoc/ but it seems the maintainer
> has decided to have it conflict with groff:
That is bad. Thanks for noticing!
There is more than one reason why i use both all the time:
mandoc cannot do real typesetting; even for manual pages,
i often do routine output comparisons; some manual pages -
about 0.25% in the wild - still don't work with mandoc and
require groff; ...
> `...this package now
> outright conflicts with groff. mandoc provides the functionality of
> both groff and man-db combined; as such, I consider it a full
> replacement'.
Uh oh. They got that wrong. :/
> I've added a comment pointing out that groff might remain
> useful. :-)
Thanks, absolutely!
>> https://www.bsdcan.org/2018/schedule/events/958.en.html
> That says
>
> Both Debian and Arch Linux now also use the mandoc formatter for
> their official online manuals.
>
> but I had trouble finding Arch's.
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Man_page#Online_man_pages points to
> https://manned.org/
>
> I guess you're referring to https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/about
> that they use for wiki links, e.g.
> https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/utf-8.7
Yes, that's what i'm linking to from below "Documentation and help /
online manual page portals" on http://mandoc.bsd.lv/ .
> Odd that they don't explicitly reference it AFAICS.
I have no idea what's going on there. :-)
Yours,
Ingo
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, (continued)
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/25
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Larry Kollar, 2018/04/21
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/22
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/22
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Keith Marshall, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, G. Branden Robinson, 2018/04/21
Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/16
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?,
Ingo Schwarze <=
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/16
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/16
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/16
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/16
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, G. Branden Robinson, 2018/04/21
Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/16
Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Larry Kollar, 2018/04/18