On Tue 01 Jun 2010 at 04:59:44 PDT Larry Kollar wrote:
Agreed. Plan9 troff is still stuck with the two-letter namespace! If
they don't want to use groff, why not Heirloom Troff from Sun? What's
the point of this anyway - GPL? NIH?
If you look at /usr/src/contrib, you'll see that the FreeB
On Tue 01 Jun 2010 at 12:48:45 PDT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Charlie,
All they're doing is putting mdocml in base to handle manpages.
http://mdocml.bsd.lv/
DESCRIPTION
mdocml is a suite of tools compiling "-mdoc", the roff macro package
of choice for BSD manual pages, and "-man"
On Thu 03 Jun 2010 at 14:36:25 PDT James Cloos wrote:
"DMW" == Denis M Wilson writes:
DMW> It's a reminder never to use BSD... On a cursory reading,
DMW> it wasn't clear how mdocml produces printable output.
My impression is that they don't intend it to, that those who want
printable output s
On 01/23/2012 08:42 PM, James K. Lowden wrote:
The problem can be broken into two parts: the creation of semantic
information from man pages, and the use of that semantic information by
your shell.
Suppose you used, say, unroff to populate a database of commands and
their options, and wrote two
On 05/13/2012 10:53 PM, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Let's face it: filtering a groff document through sed or awk so
> it becomes acceptable rtf, readable by MSWord, is not for the
> inexperienced.
I've never had occasion to put it to the test, but does Paul DuBois's
troff2rtf meet this requirement?
On Wed 26 Feb 2014 at 19:55:31 PST James K. Lowden wrote:
Luckily, the terminal is also the solution. Or, rather, a different
terminal would be. I call it VT-roff:
http://www.schemamania.org/troff/vt-roff.pdf
Interesting article. Thanks for sharing it.
My first reaction was to won
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 01:57:31 PDT Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Here's what I think is going on. There are two different access cases
for man pages: directed and serendipitous.
In the directed case, you know the man page you want. You browse it locally,
through a terminal emulator or (if you're me)
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 09:40:44 PDT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Charlie,
Since then there have been lots of tweaks to automate as much as
possible, but at the heart there is still a need to manually
categorize the commands. I wish manpages would contain something that
would help with that. The ex
