> Why not let the man(7) package handle the tedium for you? Indeed. As a manual author, I'm happy to see the manual-authoring language expand with more high-level constructs. A richer semantic language it makes it easier to write man pages that look good with groff without having to resort to low-level troff commands that don't work with other manual processors.
I am also pleased to see you thinking about how to better map man-macro constructs to HTML and CSS. I welcome a way to create lists that know they are lists. > What do you think? If I build it, will you come? ;-) The problem with adding new macros is that authors then cannot use them without breaking other formatters. In particular, I want my pages to look good with mandoc. If Ingo comes along, I'm in. > Stephen, it is okay for me to quote your recent private > mail to me on this subject? Yes, quote away. < Stephen
