Hi Rogério,
Em Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 07:33:22AM -0200, Rogério Brito escreveu:
| Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:33:22 -0200
| From: Rogério Brito
| To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
| Subject: Re: Writing manpages (was: Re: Man and UTF-8.)
|
| I guess that I only have two options left, as it seems
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:30:33AM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> On Nov 17 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > However, TTBOMK UTF-8 manpages should be OK as well, though I have
> > found some issues with more esoteric characters. I would suggest
> > reporting bugs or contacting the maintainer or groff u
Dear all,
I submitted the attached patch as bug #557298. Thanks to everybody who
contributed to this thread, and have a nice week-end!
--
Charles
Index: best-pkging-practices.dbk
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--- best-pkging-practices.dbk (révision 6986)
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Charles Plessy writes:
> Le Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:14:10AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
> > Now if only we can convince more package maintainers. Hopefully the
> > ability to use these source formats, with steady evangelisation
> > about the available rendering tools, can lower the resistance to
Le Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 05:30:33AM -0200, Rogério Brito a écrit :
>
> But what do you people use to edit manpages that you maintain
> frequently?
Dear Rogério,
I found jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) quite convenient to write and modify
Docbook XML manpages. It is not packaged in Debian, but Upstr
Le Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:14:10AM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
>
> Now if only we can convince more package maintainers. Hopefully the
> ability to use these source formats, with steady evangelisation about
> the available rendering tools, can lower the resistance to following
> policy on providin
Ben Finney wrote:
The Fungi writes:
I, too, had resolved recently to start maintaining all my project
documentation in reST. Not that I find building/editing manpages
directly in vi to be that hard, but it's still laborious and
time-consuming. I'll be happy to contribute fixes to this for any
The Fungi writes:
> I, too, had resolved recently to start maintaining all my project
> documentation in reST. Not that I find building/editing manpages
> directly in vi to be that hard, but it's still laborious and
> time-consuming. I'll be happy to contribute fixes to this for any bugs
> I find
Hi, Russ.
On Nov 18 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yup. :) And there's a nice Emacs mode for POD that does coloration
> and whatnot. (There is for *roff as well, but I hate typing *roff
> directly.)
Well, it seems that we have two strong contenders: POD and reST. Things
look brighter for a more do
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:56:10PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Type the page as a reStructuredText document, then render it to a
> manpage with ‘rst2man’
[...]
Awesome! This thread already had me thinking, "There should be a
reST to TROFF/GROFF path--if there's not I guess I'll write one." I,
too,
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Joachim Wiedorn wrote:
> I have checked the repository:
> * manedit is in Lenny and Squeeze
manedit has been removed from squeeze since February.
> * gmanedit is only in Etch and Squeeze
>
> Now I have installed the Squeeze version of gmanedit. And I must say:
Hello,
Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:33:22 -0200 wrote
Rogério Brito :
> > I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*.
>
> Is this the same as gmanedit (that's the only one that seems to be
> available in the archives)? I remember having used it some ages ago and
> I wasn't impressed, but that wa
Rogério Brito writes:
> OK, since the project strongly advises for the availability of manpages
> (and I love manpages), comes the question: what do you people use to
> type manpages?
POD. But then, I wrote the tools that convert POD to *roff, so I would.
> The best so far that I found seems t
Rogério Brito writes:
> OK, since the project strongly advises for the availability of
> manpages (and I love manpages), comes the question: what do you people
> use to type manpages?
Type the page as a reStructuredText document, then render it to a
manpage with ‘rst2man’ http://packages.debian.
2009/11/18 Rogério Brito :
> On Nov 18 2009, Joachim Wiedorn wrote:
>> I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*.
>
> Is this the same as gmanedit (that's the only one that seems to be
> available in the archives)? I remember having used it some ages ago and
> I wasn't impressed, but that was a l
Hi, Joachim.
On Nov 18 2009, Joachim Wiedorn wrote:
> Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:33 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito :
> > But what do you people use to edit manpages that you maintain
> > frequently?
> I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*.
Is this the same as gmanedit (that's the only one that
Hello,
Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:33 -0200 schrieb
Rogério Brito :
> But what do you people use to edit manpages that you maintain
> frequently?
I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*.
At the beginning you can get templates for the structure of the man
page. There are support for heade
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