Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:30:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Singletary <tsingle@triana.gsfc.nasa.gov> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: *roff (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8) Message-ID: <14247.13622.448962.288634@sungod.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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> 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
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