On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 03:30:35PM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek via illumos-discuss wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:05:28PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore via > illumos-developer wrote: > ... > > g) mandoc can format man(5) pages as well. So importing from foreign > > sources should be straight-forward. > ... > > Ideally I'd like to convert all of the pages we have in illumos to mdoc > > semantic markup. > ... > > It's an outstanding question as to whether we do these incrementally or all > > at once. I'm willing to go either way. Obviously incremental improvement > > is *easier*, but with less immediate benefit. > > Given the snippets above, I think that integrating the tools should be the > first step. The second step would be to convert a number of man pages to > demonstrate the prefered syntax for the various aspects of man pages. > Finally, let all the thrillseekers out there convert the rest of the > manpages over the coming years.
If I remember correctly, Yuri already did some of that work. The webrev was quite big. It also included new makewhatis and friends. There is a target to run mandoc -Tlint (as it happens I'm fixing a problem with it today :)), so I believe there were some conversions to the manpages already. Hans -- %SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, The operating system has been overthrown ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
