Hi Ralph, Ralph Corderoy wrote on Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:43:19PM +0100: > Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, Homebrew, MacPorts, and >> pkgsrc provide packages that you can install. > Arch Linux's user repository, AUR, has > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mandoc/ but it seems the maintainer > has decided to have it conflict with groff: That is bad. Thanks for noticing! There is more than one reason why i use both all the time: mandoc cannot do real typesetting; even for manual pages, i often do routine output comparisons; some manual pages - about 0.25% in the wild - still don't work with mandoc and require groff; ... > `...this package now > outright conflicts with groff. mandoc provides the functionality of > both groff and man-db combined; as such, I consider it a full > replacement'. Uh oh. They got that wrong. :/ > I've added a comment pointing out that groff might remain > useful. :-) Thanks, absolutely! >> https://www.bsdcan.org/2018/schedule/events/958.en.html > That says > > Both Debian and Arch Linux now also use the mandoc formatter for > their official online manuals. > > but I had trouble finding Arch's. > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Man_page#Online_man_pages points to > https://manned.org/ > > I guess you're referring to https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/about > that they use for wiki links, e.g. > https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/utf-8.7 Yes, that's what i'm linking to from below "Documentation and help / online manual page portals" on http://mandoc.bsd.lv/ . > Odd that they don't explicitly reference it AFAICS. I have no idea what's going on there. :-) Yours, Ingo
