texi2roff can convert texinfo files to groff which can then produce various text and printable formats. It doesn't make a man page, but it does make something that you can open in a text editor. I updated it once about 20 years ago, and someone else updated it again about 10 years ago and bumped it to version 2. http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/texi2roff
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:37:40 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Document for + seems to be missing in ls' document > > > > On 03/12/2015 01:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > > It's easy > > to use help2man to generate man pages from --help output, but I don't > > know of any good conversion from texinfo to man. So the man page ends > > up being as concise as --help output, while including a pointer to the > > full documentation. > > Hello! Does the fact that you CANNOT pipe the texinfo pages through > a filter or a pager to easily format as man pages, somehow fail to > indicate to you that they are in fact LESS USEFUL than man pages, > precisely because the damn texinfo format doesn't play nice with > Unix command line tools? > >
