[screen-devel] screen manual page reeds a rework

[Eric S. Raymond]

I've just joined screen-devel because, in connection with another of
my projects (doclifter) I've discovered that the screen manual page
needs a significant reworking.

The problem is not the content but the markup.  The screen.1 page is
old-school troff visual-level hackery, poorly structured. This is
not a problem as long as groff is the only renderer, but it interferes
with generating XML-Docbook and high-quality HTML from the page.

I already have a patch to turn the main command-keystroke table,
presently a rather fragile pile of list syntax, into a real TBL table.
This improves its appearance even in nroff rendering and allows a much
better HTML translation.  There are some other, similar things that
should be done further down the page.

I don't know the screen project's customs.  I could post patches here,
or apply for commit privileges on the repo at Savannah.  Please let
me know how you would like me to proceed.
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