On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, jim.ful...@webcomposite.com wrote:
I would have thought ascidoc sufficient
There are literally dozens of available quality tools that can generate nroff from something else. That is but a small part of the task. The other details I mentioned get much more complicated to work out when using one of these other tools. It needs to fit into our infra and the tighter it fits the better. With the test suite, with the website, with everything.
With a custom tool we can add custom checks and validations and also have it use the exact output format we want. And we can update and change it if we decide we want it differently. Also, the existing PR shows that switching like this can be done without too much manual extra work.
If someone wants to try the same exercise using one of these other tools you speak of, then please go ahead and do so and maybe you will understand better what I'm talking about...
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