Re: [Chicken-users] Re: eggdoc-texinfo

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hello John,

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:07:50 -0400 John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Zbigniew scripsit:
> 
> > If someone would like to take this on please do; I find Info
> > sufficient for my needs so probably will not pursue it, as the
> > rendering part of Info would have to be reimplemented.  So, I guess
> > you can cut my list of reasons for .texi in half :)
> 
> Googling for "texi2man" shows a number of such things out there:
> the first hit is a Perl version, and there's another packaged
> with units(1).  The problem is very difficult to solve in
> general, and these programs do a substandard job, but they're
> better than nothing.

Actually the format of the input file for the `man' extension is a
very simple parenthesis-based syntax [1], not the format used by Unix
manpages.

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/man.html

Best wishes,
Mario