On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:01:04AM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 04:48:12PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > > > Is there a good reason to use docbook to write the man page? I find it a > > little cumbersome. I tried it briefly, but I think I'll stick to groff. > > Before I do this though, I wanted to know of any advantages to using docbook. > > Not really. Some people prefer to write them in docbook is all. They get > translated to groff before they are put into the binary package anyway. If > you are comfortable with just writing it in groff to start with then there > is no reason to change.
I wouldn't say that there is no reason; docbook is a higher-level language than *roff, and makes it easier to translate to other documentation formats (such as HTML and texinfo), in addition to producing man pages and printed output as groff does. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
