Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:58:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doc-all collection? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014124830.4546Y-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710141511.RAA15830@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Eivind Eklund wrote: > I considered the removal of the SGML tools a pity - I'd have liked to > be able to write man-pages in a more powerful form of markup later, > e.g. DocBook. That way, integration between man-pages and the I agree, but developing good support for that would demand a lot more time than I have to devote to FreeBSD, and there hasn't been much interest expressed in developing the tools further. However, the effort going into "mdoc-ifying" existing man pages is valuable in facilitating automatic conversion an SGML/XML format at some point in the future, should that be a desirable thing to do. -john
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