Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> writes: > Man files seem rather specific to Linux
Hardly. Man pages have been part of every Unix-like operating system (which is to say, all major operating systems except one) since before Linus even discovered a C compiler. > unless we have some kind of script that would know how to transform > a reStructuredText file into a man file ? There is an experimental ‘manpage’ writer for docutils, that is packaged for (at least) Debian [0]. It has a corresponding program, ‘rst2man’ [1], for exactly the task you describe. [0]: <URL:http://packages.debian.org/sid/docutils-writer-manpage> [1]: <URL:http://packages.debian.org/sid/rst2man> -- \ “When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir | `\ cevinpl.” —Anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig