On 2015-06-03, Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: >> >> So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing >> 'man pages' mostly using txt2man. > > If you want to avoid learning *roff, there is also e.g. pod from perl > which gives you simple basic markup functionality and can output in > man page format (and other format).
asciidoc, markdown, and reStructuredText can all generate man page format as well as HTML, PDF, and others. The main benefit of these is that they're also easy to read in their "raw" input format (unlike roff). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I want to dress you at up as TALLULAH BANKHEAD and gmail.com cover you with VASELINE and WHEAT THINS ...