Another way to solve this is a rewrite of pod2man .. which will then
generate mandoc instead.
That also benefits the other manual page project.
> Actually, this is more complex than it looks, because recent pod converters
> make a lot of use of
> .ie n
> .el
> constructions, and that throws makewhatis completely off-base, especially
> wrt Moose.
>
> I have some quick hacks which allow it to proceed, and I'm still wondering
> whether I should actually teach makewhatis how to parse .ie constructs.
>
> the
> .ie n
> .el
> lines are rather simple, I'm ways more worried about multiline tests, like
> .ie n \{
>
>
> .br \}
> .el \{
>
> .br \}
>
> which promises to be a nightmare...
>
