Man page now in rst format (WAS: Re: RFH: manpages in markdown)

2016-05-01 Thread Thomas Adam
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:14:59PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Hi all, > > I've started to look at moving away from using docbook for man page > generation, and instead using markdown as the base format which can then be > converted to nroff and HTML, etc. So I've looked again. markdown is an

RFH: manpages in markdown

2016-04-04 Thread Thomas Adam
Hi all, I've started to look at moving away from using docbook for man page generation, and instead using markdown as the base format which can then be converted to nroff and HTML, etc. Using markdown for this seems sensible---using just nroff (or my preference, mdoc) is one solution, but not as