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Date:      Sun, 7 Feb 2021 13:30:02 +0100
From:      Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is here common source format to produce mdoc and MarkDown?
Message-ID:  <fc546a32-bd52-e33e-ac71-f894068c1ede@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20210205225508.GA56641@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <1c54f0c2-c5fd-b266-a760-ae4c374a7e84@FreeBSD.org> <20210205225508.GA56641@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>

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On 05/02/2021 23:55, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 01:42:26AM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
>>    I understand, that my question is not about FreeBSD documentation exactly, but close enough. If I'm not right, sorry.
>>
>>    I want to have both proper man page in mdoc format and fancy README in MarkDown for github & ko for my project. Content of these documents must be virtually the same and I don't want to edit same text twice in different formats each time when I want to change it.
>>
>>    Is here any source format to render both MarkDown and mdoc?
>>
>>    I understand, that mdoc is semantic format (it has "options" and "arguments" and such), and MarkDown is not...
>>
>>    Maybe, mdoc to MarkDown converter? It is not best way, as mdoc is very tedious to edit, but better than nothing.
> See mandoc(1) and -T markdown.  No idea if it's any good.

It is pretty good.

There is also Pandoc, which as far as I remember allows you to convert Markdown documents into 
manual pages.

Good luck,
Mateusz




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