Pierre-Jean :
> > Actively supporting is empty verbiage unless you have a mechanical
> > translator from man(7) markup to semantically enriched mdoc(7). You
> > don't, and I know exactly why you don't, because I wrote the pattern
> > analyzer you would need and don't have.
>
> Eric is wright: if d
Hello alls,
Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> Even if groff(1) could do as above, and somehow carry over the original
> macro language's "meaning", it'd be only as good as its input language.
> To wit, Eric proposed extending man(7) with semantics to address
> exactly that. And that would give u
Kristaps Dzonsons :
> Browsers are confusing because HTML doesn't play with
> character-driven media. And roff(7), into which groff(1) translates
> man(7) and mdoc(7), is (significantly?) character-driven. We hack
> around this by converting -Tascii output into -wrapped
> documents. But that's n
Hi folks,
In the last few weeks, there's been some confusing mention of manpages
on this list. Confusing because some of the issues raised, in my eyes,
aren't really issues at all. So I thought I'd pipe up in the hopeful
interests of clarity.
To begin on familiar ground, by manpages I mean
