On Wednesday 03 June 2015 14:24:18 Grant Edwards wrote: > 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).
Isn't there a Gentoo Way too? I can't put my finger on it just now but I think I've seen a reference to producing Gentoo docs, including man pages. -- Rgds Peter
