On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:54, Eric Oyen wrote: > well, I am wondering what packages I can use to edit man pages. also, I may > have to change how a man page would be laid out because my screen reader > (both > in linux and OS X) seem to have trouble handling the change in content when I > navigate through a man page in a terminal session.
man typically pipes the output through more (or less). But if you plan to edit the page, you feed the input through mandoc. There are several supported output formats, but the default is ascii text. One thing to note is that the output renders bold text as letter-backspace-letter, which looks really funny in a text editor, but works ok for terminals and more. You probably want to read the mandoc man page itself carefully, you may be able to build a better interface to man pages if the man/more combo isn't good for you.
