Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] docs: convert specifications to markdown

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Alex Bradbury wrote:
> On 15 November 2011 13:51, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Does markdown support rendering into man pages?
> 
> You can do this via pandoc:
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
 
Actually we are having the very same issue on xen right now: we have a
manual written in markdown and we would like to render it into a man
page. I found that pandoc generates man pages of terrible quality, but
ronn works pretty well. Unfortunately it is not easy to find it in
distros.
Overall I think it is better to use something else than markdown for man
pages whenever possible.