Re: manlint?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Serge,

> is there anything like "manlint"?  A tool which verifies the syntax of
> a man file and eventually points to errors?

Eric Raymond has been working on a program called doclifter to turn man
pages into DocBook.  A daft idea, and one which the slow death of XML
and DocBook should ensure never gains traction.  :-)

However, he sent patches a few years ago to many open-source projects to
fix issues with their man pages which doclifter spotted.  You may find
it has the ability to report these as part of its interface.

    https://gitlab.com/esr/doclifter
    http://www.catb.org/esr/doclifter/bugs.html
    http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7998

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Cheers, Ralph.