From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: pod2mdoc, docbook2mdoc
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:30:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140331213020.GD29643@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140331205736.GJ31866@iris.usta.de>
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:57:36PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > My general thought on pod2mdoc was to avoid invoking perl(1) just to
> > run pod2man(1) in the normal chain of looking at POD documents. I
> > also thought that, with a few more pod2mdoc smarts, we'll be able to
> > deeply mine those documents with mandocdb. From what I understand,
> > they're kinda opaque right now.
>
> All true. I didn't mean to call pod2mdoc useless, no doubt it can
> bring us benefits when it will be polished.
Actually, I think it can be very useful. NetBSD regularly imports
openssl, and the documentation for that is written in .pod files.
So for me the most interesting input files are these :) *hinthint*
Just in case you don't have enough test cases yet :)
Thanks,
Thomas
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2014-03-30 18:23 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2014-03-31 9:09 ` Thomas Klausner
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 [this message]
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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