On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 09:30:04PM +0000, David Tweed wrote: > predominant, they have to go with that. It just really irks me that > the unix-derived world the standard for documentation is in a language > that's _only_ used for manual pages. Hell, I've learned (or at least had > to at some points produce stuff in) tex,latex,hmtl, xml, docbook,pythondoc, > doxygen, and I'm kinda bored with it all.
troff has been there for ages, and it is not a man-page language, it is simply a formatting-language. Those guys at Bell Labs wrote papers and books in troff+eqn. troff makes it easy to present man pages in a vt100 pager, as PostScript document, as html, or whatever you want. Uriel made his presentations with troff btw. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361
