Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?

[John Gardner]

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>
> *This is the thing I miss most about Konqueror: you could type a URI 
> like**“man:mdoc”
> and it would format and display the page*


There'll be a feature like that in Atom. The editor recently introduced a
feature where extension authors can register an external/custom protocol to
open links in Atom from browsers/emails. My Troff previewer will be doing
just that for man://mandoc/1/. =) Will probably add support for
subsection-linking with fragment identifiers too:
man://mandoc/1/#exit-status

I'll even made manpage refs like groff(1) hotlinks for navigating between
manpages in real-time. And as if that weren't enough, the renderer includes
first-class support for Deri Jame's pdfmark macros, enabling display and
traversal of PDF bookmarks in the viewport itself..

I've been so anxious to finish this and show everybody but I'm blocked on a
retarded issue of panning/zooming transformations that require a
math-empowered brain that's better than mine... :(

On 21 April 2018 at 04:09, Larry Kollar <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> Ingo Schwarze <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > So yeah, even though proportional font is slowly becoming more
> > widely used, you may be right:  The legacy of Wolfram Schneider's
> > FreeBSD man.cgi is still pretty widespread and even motivated Michael
> > Stapelberg to use a fixed width font for Debian, even though the
> > rendering engine he uses would happily support proportional fonts.
>
> This is the thing I miss most about Konqueror: you could type a URI like
> “man:mdoc” and it would format and display the page. Whatever they were
> using for an algorithm, it worked better to display a manpage as HTML than
> anything else available at the time.
>
> When Apple first announced Safari, and its Webkit origins, I had high hopes
> they would carry that feature over. No such luck.
>
>         Larry
>