On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:24:01AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > If you don't want to do SGML, you could always edit the nroff source > > directly. > > This is what has been done historically. > > I wouldn't necessarily mind using SGML, but which tools exactly do you use. > For creating man pages I mean. How do you generate them from SGML?
I've seen `docbook2man' (or docbook-to-man, not sure) used for this... > As for editing nroff source, that's what I meant with my first question. > Is there no editor for this sort of thing? For handling all the fiddly > things like section breaks and bold text, etc, so I don't have to learn > nroff itself. There isn't much to learn, really, a handful of codes and you have a real manual page. BTW your Mail-Followup-To: is broken. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
