From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at (danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.168.64]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s2V99CX2004267 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:09:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at (Postfix, from userid 116) id 22569390369; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:09:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 11:09:12 +0200 From: Thomas Klausner To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: pod2mdoc, docbook2mdoc Message-ID: <20140331090912.GW26456@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> References: <53386109.9000504@bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv