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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2003 00:00:38 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        seanc@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org, dwmalone@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20030311000038.7963f10e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030311045239.GA4369@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:52:39 -0800
David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> 
> Actually, I was thinking of the fact that properly laid out
> DocBook can be converted into a (slightly more concise) mdoc file.
> I have nothing against a manpage listing all of the sysctls, but I
> think that centralizing the information in an SGML-based format
> would be much more useful in the long run.  And since you can make
> a manpage out of that, the only disadvantage I see is the extra
> work to put together the DocBook stuff and figure out how to do
> the conversion.
> 

There is a utility out there which converts mdoc(7) to HTML, we
just need to do that.  I've been asked to look into this and am
currently doing the `brainstorm' thing.  Hopefully I'll have
something to commit by the end of this month.

--
Tom Rhodes

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