I just joined this mailing list myself a few days ago. For what little my opinion is worth, I'm all for reworking the man pages! Thank you Eric!
> On Mar 6, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Eric S. Raymond <e...@thyrsus.com> wrote: > > I've just joined screen-devel because, in connection with another of > my projects (doclifter) I've discovered that the screen manual page > needs a significant reworking. > > The problem is not the content but the markup. The screen.1 page is > old-school troff visual-level hackery, poorly structured. This is > not a problem as long as groff is the only renderer, but it interferes > with generating XML-Docbook and high-quality HTML from the page. > > I already have a patch to turn the main command-keystroke table, > presently a rather fragile pile of list syntax, into a real TBL table. > This improves its appearance even in nroff rendering and allows a much > better HTML translation. There are some other, similar things that > should be done further down the page. > > I don't know the screen project's customs. I could post patches here, > or apply for commit privileges on the repo at Savannah. Please let > me know how you would like me to proceed. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> > > When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state". > -- Claire Wolfe, "101 Things To Do Until The Revolution" >