On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:03:21PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: > > Well, there is lout to consider. > [...] > > I've never used it for manpage rendering though! A simple `awk' > > script could indeed do it as its format is quite easy. Uwe has > > experience with it :) > > Right, and in my experience it would be completely unsuitable. :) > > Now, don't get me wrong, I love Lout and and when I need a batch > formatter it's what I use unless there are strong overriding reasons. > But it's *way* slower than roff or tex (remember, that troff and tex > are macro processors, while lout uses a functional language).
If speed is the primary problem it's probably fixable... -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
