Hi, Joachim. On Nov 18 2009, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Am Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:30:33 -0200 schrieb Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br>: > > But what do you people use to edit manpages that you maintain > > frequently? > I find the simplest way is to use *ManEdit*.
Is this the same as gmanedit (that's the only one that seems to be available in the archives)? I remember having used it some ages ago and I wasn't impressed, but that was a long time ago. > At the beginning you can get templates for the structure of the man > page. There are support for header and sections. There are some > shortcuts for formatting. But you also must know syntax elements of > manpages: <TP> <LP> and so on. This is what I'm trying to avoid. When I edit the bare *roff sources, I usually end up having line breaks where I don't want and not having where I want and it takes me some round trips to get it as I wanted. I guess that I only have two options left, as it seems: Perl's pod format or docbook. The only problem with docbook is that I don't know how to avoid the torrent of markups and typing some of them is long. Now, if there were some LaTeX -> man, that would be amazing. Anyway, I will give gmanedit a try right now. Let's see if my impressions still hold. Other opinions and suggestions are very welcome. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org