From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 14 10:59:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA06047 for current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA06036 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:59:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jfieber@indiana.edu) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA23383; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:58:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:58:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Eivind Eklund cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doc-all collection? In-Reply-To: <199710141511.RAA15830@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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