On 12/04, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Jan Braun: > > > 2) runit has manpages. s6 has HTML. :( > > > Daniel J. Bernstein had something to say on that subject, two decades ago. > See the "Notes" section of http://cr.yp.to/slashdoc.html . > > I generate both manual pages and HTML from a common DocBook XML master in > the nosh toolset. And the DocBook XML is itself readable directly with a > WWW browser. > http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/setuidgid-fromenv.xml is a > copy of one such DocBook XML master, for example. It's on the WWW, and the > packages also install it locally, for off-line reading.
I still like having man pages. It's often just easier to type "man <name>" than to find the local (or remote) HTML document and open it in a web browser. However, I agree that it's very nice to have HTML as well. So, I like to have both! It seems good to generate them from a single source format. I would like DocBook except that the toolchain seems *so* heavy. And if you want to generate PDFs, it's even heavier. What about mandoc? http://mandoc.bsd.lv/ It seems pretty lightweight, and from an mdoc source, it can generate ASCII, HTML, man, PDF, and PostScript. Lewis
