From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
Cc: Stephen Gregoratto <dev@sgregoratto.me>, discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix formatting in wg-quick(8)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 23:38:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHmME9r0Atb+--qqsfG7PGjNCdXfAN5ZjxLKk0SHCFiaT6tPaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200213222845.GA31578@athene.usta.de>
Hi Ingo,
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 11:28 PM Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> wrote:
> On any BSD, any Linux, on Illumos, and on commercial Oracle Solaris 11:
> yes, any installation of man(1) you might have will display mdoc(7)
> just fine. On most BSDs, man(1) will use mandoc(1) for formatting.
> On most Linuxes, man(1) will use groff(1) by default for formatting,
> but groff(1) has been supporting mdoc(7) for about three decades
> now.
That all sounds perfect. Out of the box support for a better set of
macros on all the platforms I care about. I just tried pasting the
hello world example from the mdoc manual preference, and man(1)
handled it without a hitch.
> If you use MacOS, it will work, too, but there might be occasional
> formatting problems.
I suppose we can just hack around these, should they come up.
> Do you want somebody to have a go at converting your two files
> to mdoc(7)?
That would be terrific! Thank you.
I'm happy to be going this route, rather than giving up and succumbing
to docbook or asciidoc or a similar cop out. Seems like mdoc has all
the right semantic markup for what we need.
Jason
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2020-02-11 22:59 ` discrepancy between groff and mandoc for html rendering of wg-quick(8) Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-02-12 7:02 ` Jan Stary
2020-02-12 15:06 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-12 15:14 ` Jan Stary
2020-02-12 15:25 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-12 21:44 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-13 4:29 ` Stephen Gregoratto
2020-02-13 4:49 ` [PATCH] Fix formatting in wg-quick(8) Stephen Gregoratto
2020-02-13 8:57 ` Raf Czlonka
2020-02-13 16:31 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-02-13 18:34 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-13 17:57 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-13 18:00 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-02-13 19:34 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-13 19:55 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-02-13 22:28 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-13 22:38 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2020-02-13 22:44 ` Jan Stary
2020-02-13 23:21 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-14 4:00 ` Anthony J. Bentley
2020-02-14 11:08 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-02-14 15:05 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-14 22:36 ` Anthony J. Bentley
2020-02-14 18:20 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-15 0:45 ` [PATCH v2] Rewrite wg-quick.8 in mdoc Stephen Gregoratto
2020-02-15 19:53 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-02-16 10:32 ` Stephen Gregoratto
2020-02-16 15:52 ` Ingo Schwarze
2020-02-13 16:34 ` discrepancy between groff and mandoc for html rendering of wg-quick(8) Jason A. Donenfeld
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