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Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation
From: |
Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation |
Date: |
Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:44:50 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.2i |
Gunnar Ritter <address@hidden>:
> I would claim it is. The groff manual pages also cannot be
> displayed properly by other manual page viewers. There are
> some glitches even with Heirloom troff; although it can handle
> the language, some groff-specific macros do not exist in its
> -man implementation.
>
> So I think this is worth fixing regardless of the specific
> case of DocBook conversion. groff is by far not the only
> program which is used to display the groff manual pages.
Excellent point.
Because response on the list was supportive, I went ahead and stripped
groff.1. It's enclosed. You may have trouble spotting the differences,
which is sort of the idea.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
fixed-groff.man
Description: Unix manual page
- Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, (continued)
- Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/23
- Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/24
- Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/24
- Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, mhobgood, 2006/12/24
- Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/24
- Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/23
- Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/23
Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/23
[Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Ralph Corderoy, 2006/12/28
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/23
- Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation,
Eric S. Raymond <=
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/23
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/24
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/24
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/24
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/26
Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/26