From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Aug 5 18:30:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A32C155D8; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 18:30:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA14005; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:59:16 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA88193; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:59:02 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:59:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Baldwin Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , nik@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org, rnordier@nordier.com, Bruce Evans , Mike Pritchard , Tim Vanderhoek Subject: DocBook->*roff (was: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8) Message-ID: <19990806105901.W5126@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990803083741.B58351@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <199908032225.SAA16506@smtp1.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199908032225.SAA16506@smtp1.erols.com>; from John Baldwin on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:25:35PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 18:25:35 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 03-Aug-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> [ redirect to doc, add nik to cc: ] >> >> * Tim Vanderhoek (vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca) [990803 07:13]: >>> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:37:59AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Arghhhh! Man pages should never use direct *roff command for >>>>> formatting. >>>> >>>> Why not? Because our forefathers did it that way? >>> >>> Because using strictly mdoc will make it easier to change all the >>> manpages to DocBook? >> >> Now this is interesting. >> > > >> I would like to hear some comments on this because it might truly be the >> way to proceed on, but I still have some doubts and blanks about how to >> realise a few goals. >> >> 'gards, > > DocBook can produce *roff format (to my knowledge), No, unfortunately. It's a wish list item. I took a brief look at it and decided I had better ways to go crazy. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message