On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Evan Gates <evan.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > The plan for now is to use 9 base troff and a pager which has not yet > been picked. Currently 9 base troff has been added to the src repo, > but the mdoc macros still need to be included (the ones from heirloom > troff worked). As such you should be able to manually view pages using > the man macros but not the mdoc macros (e.g. sbase man pages won't > work). I don't think there is a plan yet on how to handle the > search/troff/pager setup, whether a man script like plan 9's or > something else entirely. A minor point, the man macros included with 9 > base troff seem to add page breaks. I started to learn troff to remove > them but I got side tracked by other projects. > > If you come up with a good solution start a discussion.
Why not mdocml[0]? It supports man and mdoc macros, and also has can find and display man pages when invoked as 'man'. [0] http://mdocml.bsd.lv/