Re: Modernising UNIX manpages.

[Denis M. Wilson]

Hello all,

I suggest that this does not upset the Linux man pages project; that
conversion tools should be able to generate standard man format, in
view of the number of tools that assume this, eg RosettaMan and tkman.

Denis

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 05:46:58 +0200
JM Marcastel <don@marcastel.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to investigate the possibility of using Markdown as an
> alternate format for UNIX man-pages. (Cf.
> https://github.com/marcastel/marcastel/discussions/7)
> 
> Rather than re-inventing the wheel I would ideally like this to
> become part of an existing tool (mandoc, groff, …).
> 
> I would like to devote time to this in the second semester of 2021
> and would appreciate sharing this.
> 
> I believe the first step is to provide a proof of concept what
> demonstrates the expected outcome and that desired command line
> interface.
> 
> I have a clear idea on how to build that POC once the requirements
> have been set.
> 
> Has this already been studied? Would this be an initiative you would
> support?
> 
> Best regards,
> JM Marcastel
> 


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