Re: [screen-devel] screen manual page reeds a rework

[Ralph Loizzo]

I just joined this mailing list myself a few days ago. For what little my 
opinion is worth, I'm all for reworking the man pages!  Thank you Eric!

> On Mar 6, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Eric S. Raymond <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> -- 
>        <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
> 
> When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".
>        -- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution" 
>