On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 08:15 +0200, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > 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.
The book "Unix Text Processing" is available here in a variety of formats: http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ > 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.
