> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 13:04 -0700, Michelle Olson > wrote: > > Hi Erast, > > > > Thanks so much for this information, oyu wrote: > > > > > >> 2) the > > >> format you want and packaging > > > > > >tarball is the best, but if it could be somehow > integrated into ON, > > it > > >would be even better. > > > > Can you expand on this a bit? Would you prefer > nroff or SGML or both? > > It is pretty easy to keep manpages in SGML and > convert them to nroff > later on or during package preparation. As a benefit > of having sources > in SGML we could get HTML converted man pages with > better results, i.e. > keep URL(s), formatting, etc.
OK, thanks. I would agree that SGML format provides the benefits you cite above and then some. However, if we could open source nroff as the first pilot tarball, and if we could only accept man page patches or content changes in ASCII for this first tarball, would you want that? Would it help your developers? Thanks again, Michelle > > Erast > > _______________________________________________ > docs-discuss mailing list > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > This message posted from opensolaris.org
