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Date: Wed,  4 Mar 2015 23:29:46 +0100
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From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] unexpected tabs in man pages after font change
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Well... docx, obviously! :-D

Seriously, a markdown/asciidoc like language would be far easier to
write and update.
We could even compile it to troff, we we had to print it.

However, this is not a rant specific to plan9. Linux is not better
from this point of view.


Giacomo

2015-03-04 22:31 GMT+01:00 Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu <aram.h@mgk.ro>:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:
>>
>> why the hell we still use troff for manual pages?
>
> What do you propose we use instead?
>
> --
> Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu
>