From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Aug 3 11:30:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from wheelo.gsfc.nasa.gov (wheelo.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.50.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D278615143 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tsingle@triana.gsfc.nasa.gov) Received: from sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (triana.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.221.199]) by wheelo.gsfc.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17611 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:31:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sungod.gsfc.nasa.gov.gsfc.nasa.gov (sungod.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.221.167]) by sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA12140 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:30:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Singletary MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14247.13622.448962.288634@sungod.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:30:14 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: *roff (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8) X-Mailer: VM 6.70 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > One of the 'killer-apps' that's missing from DocBook is a good, standard, > mechanism to go from DocBook to *roff based markup. We have DocBook > to HTML, plain text, PostScript, PDF, and RTF, but not *roff. Why not just let *roff wither and die? nroff by way of man is the best excuse for keeping it, but how hard would it be to modify man to understand DocBook input and start the appropriate pipeline to convert DocBook to plain text? We don't need troff at all, since there are other ways to produce its outputs. By today's standards *roff is a terrible language whose use shouldn't be encouraged! tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message