On 16/10/23 08:36, Gard Spreemann wrote:
I've also found scdoc to be a quite pleasant and very lightweight alternative
I've noticed that the bullet points in man pages produced by scdoc are
"off" compared to those produced by "pod2man". For example compare
https://manpages.debian.org/unstabl
My plan, as indicated in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041731#62, had been
to leave things much as they are for most of the period while trixie is
in development, and then put the ".char - \-" etc. workarounds back in
place for nroff output for trixie's release; this would have
On October 16, 2023 2:41:08 AM GMT+02:00, "Trent W. Buck"
wrote:
>FWIW, there are lighter alternatives than pandoc:
>
>pandoc:After this operation, 174 MB of
> additional disk space will be used.
>sphinx-doc (sphinx-build -b man): After this operation, 140 MB
At 2023-10-15T13:11:47-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sorry for my original message, which was very poorly worded and
> probably incredibly confusing. Let me try to make less of a hash of
> it. I think what I'm proposing is something like:
My reply to this didn't make it to the -devel list even aft
On Sun 15 Oct 2023 17:33:07 +0200, Iustin Pop wrote:
> At least you're not lazy. I am, so what I did many times is add a
> build-depends on pandoc, and write the man page in rst or md. I think
> that's a worse solution (pandoc is really heavy), but at least, I don't
> have to go back to *roff.
FWI
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> How about this?
> \- Minus sign. \- produces the basic Latin hyphen‐minus
> specifying Unix command‐line options and frequently used in
> file names. “-” is a hyphen in roff; some output devices
> replace it with U+20
Hi Russ,
At 2023-10-15T12:06:14-0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Minor point, but since you posted it
No worries!
> "G. Branden Robinson" writes:
>
> > ...
>
> > \- Minus sign or basic Latin hyphen‐minus. \- produces the
> > Unix command‐line option dash in the output. “
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