> I've wondered about doing this and in particular noticed that the > various utilities for converting from, e.g. reStructuredText, > > http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html > > don't have troff backends although they may have LaTeX ones, e.g. > rst2latex. I'm guessing this is because the variety of macro packages > that could be targetted in the troff world.
There's also pandoc, a markdown implementation (markdown is pretty similar to reStructuredText) which has a groff man backend. It probably wouldn't be to hard to extend this from man to other macro packages. http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try
