On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:54:46 +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: > Well, there is lout to consider. [...] > I've never used it for manpage rendering though! A simple `awk' > script could indeed do it as its format is quite easy. Uwe has > experience with it :)
Right, and in my experience it would be completely unsuitable. :) Now, don't get me wrong, I love Lout and and when I need a batch formatter it's what I use unless there are strong overriding reasons. But it's *way* slower than roff or tex (remember, that troff and tex are macro processors, while lout uses a functional language). -uwe