Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage

2020-12-27 Thread Anton Shepelev
Sudipto Mallick: > I am new here, I do not know whose approval I need > to push the changes. Whom to ask for approval? Not being a contributor to TCC, I can't tell you. Since nobody has answered, chances are no one among the readers of this mailing list is interested in tranditional

Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage

2020-12-26 Thread Sudipto Mallick
On 12/26/20, Anton Shepelev wrote: > I agree that *roff syntax is simultaneosly concise, > writable, and readable, whereas texinfo is a huge > package with a verbose syntax and dependencies on > LaTeX and other third-party formatters. That said, > *roff would be the natural choice for

Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage

2020-12-26 Thread Anton Shepelev
Sudipto Mallick to Michael Matz: > As I am reformatting it, I do not find it hard to > write. It must have been writable enough to be > used in writing almost all manual pages in OpenBSD > etc. Also current setup depends on perl to be in- > stalled, which is not a hard requirement, but

Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage

2020-12-25 Thread Michael Matz
Hello, On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, Sudipto Mallick wrote: When I compiled a recent version of tinycc from mob, I looked at the source of the manpage. I don't like it. In which sense? tcc.1 is a generated file, it's not supposed to be edited. The source is tcc-doc.texi, i.e. texinfo, via texi2pod

Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage

2020-12-25 Thread Anton Shepelev
Sudipto Mallick: > When I compiled a recent version of tinycc from mob, I > looked at the source of the manpage. I don't like it. What did not you like? > I learnt about the mdoc(7) format for writing man pages > and thought to use that format for the tcc man page. The > rewrite is attached.

[Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage

2020-12-25 Thread Sudipto Mallick
When I compiled a recent version of tinycc from mob, I looked at the source of the manpage. I don't like it. I learnt about the mdoc(7) format for writing man pages and thought to use that format for the tcc man page. The rewrite is attached. What do you think about this mdoc formatted manual