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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:30:42 -0700
From:      merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com>
Subject:   Re: How to make "man" pages
Message-ID:  <8639zgzkhp.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BB2F8FF.7090707@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:25:51 %2B0100")
References:  <4BB2BABF.9070401@a1poweruser.com> <4BB2F8FF.7090707@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

Matthew>   groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all
Matthew> like HTML.

No, it's not.  It's actually turing-complete.  I did "towers of hanoi"
in troff at one point. Can't do that with HTML. :)

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