On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:26:33PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > I noticed that current ones are traditional roff. With POD the pages > would be easier to edit and maintain, and diffs would be more clear too. > > If there would be interest in changing to use the Perl POD format I'll > volunteer for the work.
After doing some work on the man pages these last few days I actually wondered the same thing. Editing roff directly is just no fun at all... Before switching to a new format it would be good to research the alternatives, though. I personally know docbook-to-man (which is no huge win in readability in my opinion ;), POD (very simple, but also somewhat limited in what you can express), and asciidoc (has more possibilities than POD while still being simple, but the syntax isn't really stable [see recent version 7 -> version 8 move] and somehwat underdocumented). Other opinions/alternatives? Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
