From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jun 4 18:31:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCAC37B401; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:31:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray@meow.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from murray@localhost) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f551VT724939; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murray) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:31:29 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Eric Melville , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 sprog.7 Message-ID: <20010604183129.K21920@meow.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200106041532.f54FWj236909@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010604084436.A78021@FreeBSD.org> <20010604145505.R37979@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010604145505.R37979@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:55:05PM -0500 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:55:05PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > typically, duplicating the same information in two different places in the > tree is frowned upon. whats the plan here? We desperately need a DocBook -> mdoc filter for this and several other good reasons. There are several projects that are working on related things (and all Solaris manpages have been generated from DocBook for quite some time) but I don't think any of them meet our needs yet. Does anyone have some free cycles to investigate this? - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message