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2023 Jan 02
2
rewrite manpages to mdoc(7)
On Jan 01 00:05:09, jamie at catflap.org wrote: > Jan Stary via nsd-users <nsd-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote: > > > On Dec 31 11:43:56, paul at nohats.ca wrote: > > > Why not go to xml and use xml2man / pandoc ? > > > > Because it is a terrible manpage format > > and the toolchain produces broken crap. > > I have no specific knowledge on this, but would just like to "me too" > to this thread that whatever format is used, it MUSTN'T impact on the > qua...
2023 Jan 10
1
rewrite manpages to mdoc(7)
Jan Stary <hans at stare.cz> wrote: > On Jan 01 00:05:09, jamie at catflap.org wrote: > > Jan Stary via nsd-users <nsd-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 31 11:43:56, paul at nohats.ca wrote: > > > > Why not go to xml and use xml2man / pandoc ? > > > > > > Because it is a terrible manpage format > > > and the toolchain produces broken crap. > > > > I have no specific knowledge on this, but would just like to "me too" > > to this thread that whatever format is used, it MUST...
2022 Dec 31
1
rewrite manpages to mdoc(7)
Dear authors of NSD, currently, the manpages that come with NSD are written in the traditional man(7) markup language. I am proposing to rewrite them into the semantic markup of the mdoc(7) language. I am willing to do the work. See a version of nsd-checkzone.8 below as an example. Both the man(7) and mdoc(7) languages have been around for decades, and are supported by the prevalent formatters: