From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-4.sys.kth.se (smtp-4.sys.kth.se [130.237.48.193]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s2UINFOG008116 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:23:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) by smtp-4.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D271D81 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:23:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Received: from smtp-4.sys.kth.se ([130.237.48.193]) by mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Vnuat3G1wCaC for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:23:09 +0200 (CEST) X-KTH-Auth: kristaps [85.3.59.60] X-KTH-mail-from: kristaps@bsd.lv X-KTH-rcpt-to: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Received: from [192.168.1.105] (60-59.3-85.cust.bluewin.ch [85.3.59.60]) by smtp-4.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9A9E8C97 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:23:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <53386109.9000504@bsd.lv> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:23:05 +0200 From: Kristaps Dzonsons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: pod2mdoc, docbook2mdoc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hiya folks, Long story short: any Perl POD or DocBook people out there? 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. pod2mdoc does a decent job given the many POD manuals out there, but could use more "semantic suck". (E.g., pod2man is able to "recognise" functions--that'd be swell for us, too. The SYNOPSIS is a horror, too.) docbook2mdoc is a larger project just because docbook has so many elements. So mechanically larger, not larger in terms of brains. It also needs a bit of "doclifter desucking", as many docbook manuals I've seen are from doclifter, which mangles some things (e.g., Xr). Anybody interested? Bueller? Bueller? Best, Kristaps -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv