-mdoc vs. -man

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:33:24PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-10-30 20:04, Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>> I've had some requests from people who want to use the
> >>> libarchive and bsdtar manpages on non-BSD systems that don't
> >>> support -mdoc.
> >>> 
> >>> Any problems if I reworked these manpages to only require
> >>> -man-old for compatibility with these systems?  (Other than
> >>> the inherent tediousness of such a project, that is.)
> >>
> >> Yes.  At least from me.
> > 
> > All good points.  Any leads on software that can convert from
> > -mdoc to -man?  That would neatly address this issue for me.
> 
> Not really.  I haven't really used -man for any substantial
> amount of work in years.  Maybe Ruslan, who is our groff-guru
> knows about something?
> 
I'm not aware of any such tools.  But perhaps having formatted
versions of manpages (aka catpages) available in the libarchive
distribution would be enough.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
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