On 16/10/23 08:36, Gard Spreemann wrote:
I've also found scdoc to be a quite pleasant and very lightweight alternative
I've noticed that the bullet points in man pages produced by scdoc are
"off" compared to those produced by "pod2man". For example compare
My plan, as indicated in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041731#62, had been
to leave things much as they are for most of the period while trixie is
in development, and then put the ".char - \-" etc. workarounds back in
place for nroff output for trixie's release; this would
On October 16, 2023 2:41:08 AM GMT+02:00, "Trent W. Buck"
wrote:
>FWIW, there are lighter alternatives than pandoc:
>
>pandoc:After this operation, 174 MB of
> additional disk space will be used.
>sphinx-doc (sphinx-build -b man): After this operation, 140
At 2023-10-15T13:11:47-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sorry for my original message, which was very poorly worded and
> probably incredibly confusing. Let me try to make less of a hash of
> it. I think what I'm proposing is something like:
My reply to this didn't make it to the -devel list even
On Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:33:07 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:
> At least you're not lazy. I am, so what I did many times is add a
> build-depends on pandoc, and write the man page in rst or md. I think
> that's a worse solution (pandoc is really heavy), but at least, I don't
> have to go back to *roff.
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> How about this?
> \- Minus sign. \- produces the basic Latin hyphen‐minus
> specifying Unix command‐line options and frequently used in
> file names. “-” is a hyphen in roff; some output devices
> replace it with
Hi Russ,
At 2023-10-15T12:06:14-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Minor point, but since you posted it
No worries!
> "G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>
> > ...
>
> > \- Minus sign or basic Latin hyphen‐minus. \- produces the
> > Unix command‐line option dash in the output.
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