Neil Williams wrote: > There are plenty of tools that help create manpages without having to > understand the Groff/troff format. help2man can take your STDOUT usage > message and convert that to a usable manpage, doclifter can then take > that manpage and create XML that is easier to edit and gives you > instructions on how to use xsltproc to turn the XML back into a > manpage.
I'm also trying to create a man page. help2man worked wonderfully (thanks for the hint!), and doclifter produced good XML. But it took me a while to work out how to convert back from XML to "man" format - there were a couple of dead-ends. Apologies if everyone *else* already knows this, but it might save a few people some wasted time... I thought docbook2man (or docbook-to-man) would be the best way to do it, but it can't handle the XML produced by doclifter (it only really works for SGML). xmlto works, though: xmlto man thing.1.xml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
