From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-3.sys.kth.se (smtp-3.sys.kth.se [130.237.48.192]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s5D8l2dn010807 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 04:47:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) by smtp-3.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB4625F3; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:47:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kth.se Received: from smtp-3.sys.kth.se ([130.237.48.192]) by mailscan-1.sys.kth.se (mailscan-1.sys.kth.se [130.237.32.91]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id RQTWC__VCHjz; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:47:00 +0200 (CEST) X-KTH-Auth: kristaps [2a02:1205:5033:5b0:daa2:5eff:fe98:6743] X-KTH-mail-from: kristaps@bsd.lv Received: from lappy.local (unknown [IPv6:2a02:1205:5033:5b0:daa2:5eff:fe98:6743]) by smtp-3.sys.kth.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E6DC25DE; Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:46:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <539ABA77.4050305@bsd.lv> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:46:47 +0200 From: Kristaps Dzonsons User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv CC: David Holland Subject: Re: Extension for more general documents References: <20140613083536.GJ14438@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20140613083536.GJ14438@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > We'd really like to move away the documents in NetBSD's base system > from the groff -ms and -me macro sets to anything else that can be > easily converted to txt, html, and pdf. > > We already have mandoc in the base system and it supports these output > formats. So it seems to be a good candidate, and mdoc already provides > the formatting options we need (AFAIK). > > We probably would just need to add a mode to mandoc where it doesn't > insist on a man page header and instead supports some article > information like a title. > > Would you be willing to add support for this in mandoc? > > Am I overlooking stuff that makes this more hard than I currently > imagine it to be? Thomas, Can you point to an example or two for reference? Best, Kristaps -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv