discuss: man program able to use docbook files instead man-pages
Subject:
Re: man program able to use docbook files instead man-pages
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
13 Jul 2002 13:15:30 -0000
Message-Id: <20020713131528.GA29499@riva.ucam.org>
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 02:50:19PM +0200, Ismael Olea wrote:
> I've been said the new versions of Solaris has it's manpages source
> code in docbook ref-entry format.
>
> Does anybody knows a free man implementation able to work in the same
> way?
Use docbook-to-man.
> It could be very useful for converging the format of man-pages into
> docbook. For example the maintenance of translations will be absolutely
> homonegic and fasters with the future tools.
The transition would be a lot of work, and I don't see how it offers you
any translation benefits over *roff. I've certainly seen plenty of
translated man pages around.
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
