On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 4:18 PM EDT, Larry McVoy wrote: > Am I the only person who thinks that have *roff documentation in a different > markup is crazy? > > I wrote a couple source management systems, this is like I was storing > BitKeeper in Git. That says I trust Git but not my own code. > > Has anyone proposed redoing the texinfo stuff in Groff? If not, why not?
(I by no means speak for Groff; correct me if this is wrong.) It’s a bit different when it comes to documentation because: 1. People might need to read the documentation for a format’s tools before they can read files in that format (this isn’t the case for Groff specifically, but a manual page isn’t always the best introduction) 2. Some people prefer different formats and might be more inclined to use a tool if it’s documented in a format accessible to them 3. There is also documentation written in *roff Cheers, -- DJ Chase They, Them, Theirs