On Oct 31, 2011, at 21:22, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> There had at one time been an effort to develop new documentation files, out 
>> of which could be generated the guide, the manpages, and anything else we 
>> wanted. I don't think that got completed though.
> 
> Don't let that stop you though.

Right. Even just getting the current manpages to appear in the guide would be 
helpful. But we would want to do so in a way that isn't just formatting the 
current manpages as XML and copying them into the guide sources, because 
they'll just get out of sync with the manpages sources. We currently have some 
things documented in the guide and not the manpages, some things documented in 
the manpages and not the guide, and some things documented in the wiki, and 
even some things documented on the MacPorts web page proper, with some overlap 
between all of these. The goal of the documentation rewrite was to deduplicate 
and get a single canonical source for the documentation, out of which could be 
generated whatever formats we wanted. It is probably a long and involved 
process though.

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