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From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: pod2mdoc, docbook2mdoc
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:09:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140331090912.GW26456@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53386109.9000504@bsd.lv>

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 08:23:05PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> In recent chatter on groff's mailing list, there's been talk about manpages.
> For reasons (maybe) clear to anybody reading these, I thought I'd write some
> tools that might help people start putting their weight behind mdoc.
> 
> To wit,
> 
>  http://mdocml.bsd.lv/pod2mdoc
>  http://mdocml.bsd.lv/docbook2mdoc
> 
> The second requires libexpat (for the XML parsing), but beyond that, they're
> both standalone utilities.  No Perl.  No weird... XSLT... jade... whatever
> things.
> 
> I've little time these days, so I thought maybe somebody would be interested
> in delving into these utilities and seeing how they stack up against the
> real world.  There's a lot of meat to both.

This sounds interesting. To make it easier for pkgsrc people to do
that, I've just added packages for both of them: textproc/pod2mdoc and
textproc/docbook2mdoc.

Thanks for writing these!
 Thomas
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-31  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <sfid-H20140330-202333-+022.64-1@spamfilter.osbf.lua>
2014-03-30 18:23 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31  9:09   ` Thomas Klausner [this message]
2014-03-31 10:30     ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31 16:13       ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-03-31 19:40         ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31 20:57           ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-03-31 21:30             ` Thomas Klausner
2014-03-31 21:54               ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31 22:21                 ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-03-31 22:31                   ` Thomas Klausner
2014-04-03 12:02                     ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-04-03 12:17                       ` Thomas Klausner
2014-04-03 12:33                         ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-04-03 13:53                           ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-04-03 16:51                             ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-04-03 22:06                             ` Thomas Klausner
2014-04-04 13:43                               ` Kristaps Dzonsons

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