Hello Eric, thanks for feedback. Just post your patch here, I will apply it.
Regards, Alex On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Ralph Loizzo <feedb...@friartech.net> wrote: > I just joined this mailing list myself a few days ago. For what little my > opinion is worth, I'm all for reworking the man pages! Thank you Eric! > >> On Mar 6, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: >> >> I've just joined screen-devel because, in connection with another of >> my projects (doclifter) I've discovered that the screen manual page >> needs a significant reworking. >> >> The problem is not the content but the markup. The screen.1 page is >> old-school troff visual-level hackery, poorly structured. This is >> not a problem as long as groff is the only renderer, but it interferes >> with generating XML-Docbook and high-quality HTML from the page. >> >> I already have a patch to turn the main command-keystroke table, >> presently a rather fragile pile of list syntax, into a real TBL table. >> This improves its appearance even in nroff rendering and allows a much >> better HTML translation. There are some other, similar things that >> should be done further down the page. >> >> I don't know the screen project's customs. I could post patches here, >> or apply for commit privileges on the repo at Savannah. Please let >> me know how you would like me to proceed. >> -- >> <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> >> >> When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state". >> -- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution" >> >