Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:11:58 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing man pages in sgml Message-ID: <01061622115811.01838@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010616153509.00a9d9a0@mail85.pair.com>
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On Saturday 16 June 2001 9:35 pm, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> I seem to recall someone once saying somewhere (possibly here) that
> the DocBook sgml could be converted into a man page. If that is the
> case, could someone please tell me how (and perhaps direct me to a
> sample sgml for the creation of manpages)?
There are a number of tools that can do this. Sun have already done this
with Solaris, and they based it on dtm, available at
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/tools/dtm/
This has also come up on the -doc list before. A search for the thread
with the subject
man, TOC, xml...
should be instructive.
What we call man pages, DocBook calls "RefEntry"s. You can see some
examples at
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/html/refentry.html
Finally, I was having a chat with Ruslan (ru@FreeBSD.org) about this
yesterday, and he's also interested in working on it. It would be a good
idea to talk with him as well.
N
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