Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 15:10:15 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| mandoc doesn't understand tbl output for the simple test i tried.
No, in general mandoc doesn't process *roff input at all. Its input
syntax is similar, and it implements a few *roff commands, but in general
it simply processes mdoc (or man) macros directly - as in it knows what
to do with a TH or TS macro call (and all the others - including the few
primitive *roff forms it has been taught - like \*X and .br), but cannot
possibly cope with the the actual *roff low level code that the man macros
use to implenent those, and which the *roff formatters actually process.
| But groff's (& plan9port's) nroff deals with this fine.
They actually implement *roff - mandoc is smaller, and faster, because it
doesn't.
kre
ps: Ken, while I am here, forget about translating HTML back into anything
rational - that's akin to translating assembler code back into C. You can
do it, generally manually, if you really have to, but it isn't something to
ever deliberately plan to need doing.
