From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 11759 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2023 01:29:13 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 Jan 2023 01:29:13 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA21424F1; Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:28:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (pb-smtp20.pobox.com [173.228.157.52]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19124424F0 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:28:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7643B1E0358; Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:28:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from davida@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h= content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:cc:date:message-id:references:to; s=sasl; bh=4CVvlb x9icP+2oXh4BnDKieWAguFUMrdg3e3sw7/ZWw=; b=cfOn+pmf3ObcH0gWd/uOeX s22A8yDMzdY38UR7YLfjUoslSUB6Btdw65VGTuy7zK++eBwhvAicYnO2L/pOs1V0 ZfKFuPzUNimr/tCf24jibho7hb1DhDXaNHXgRuAPcztyQBg1aYiCiIJlES1TxRHh LodYMphjKEbBdpIgGQL1Q= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E03D1E0357; Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:28:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from davida@pobox.com) Received: from smtpclient.apple (unknown [203.132.93.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CC73B1E0356; Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:28:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from davida@pobox.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) From: David Arnold In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:28:27 +1100 Message-Id: References: To: segaloco X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (20C65) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: EED577C8-9DE1-11ED-BEA2-C2DA088D43B2-29049682!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Message-ID-Hash: 53UTANBOS2EIEMRTBYQGDZFFARMOAI5N X-Message-ID-Hash: 53UTANBOS2EIEMRTBYQGDZFFARMOAI5N X-MailFrom: davida@pobox.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Joseph Holsten , Tautological Eunuch Horticultural Scythians X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] =?utf-8?q?Re=3A_Collecting_notes_for_future_=E2=80=9Chistorians=E2=80=9D_was=3A_Earliest_UNIX_Workstations=3F?= List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: fwiw, Pandoc (https://pandoc.org) claims to be able to translate between Med= iaWiki and both man and ms roff macros.=20 d > On 27 Jan 2023, at 11:54, segaloco via TUHS wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFYou just got my head all abuzz on whether a *roff<->MediaWiki tra= nspiler would be: 1. Possible and 2. Beneficial. >=20 > We use a MediaWiki at work for aggregating random tidbits from people that= they think might get lost in project noise. There's times I'd love to have= some way to *roff-ize the materials for white papers, the printouts from Me= diaWiki are uuuuugly. Benefits on the flip-side would be rapidly getting al= l sorts of documentation into Wiki format pretty quickly. >=20 > Of course, for an actual documentation project, there would need to be a m= aster as diverse edits in different places wouldn't track with one another. = In this case, the *roff sources would probably make a better master for dif= f reasons. >=20 > - Matt G. >=20 > ------- Original Message ------- >> On Thursday, January 26th, 2023 at 4:36 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> Hi Joseph, >> At 2023-01-26T14:41:50-0800, Joseph Holsten wrote: >>> And if I=E2=80=99m writing in troff, is there a preferred macro set for >>> articles these days? A decade ago I wrote manuals in mdoc but papers >>> in LaTeX; these days I just lean on pandoc to translate. I=E2=80=99ll ne= ed to >>> knock my rust off. >> There's always ms. It's pretty easy to acquire, and will produce >> authentic looking traditional Unix papers with little effort. Here's a >> manual that Larry Kollar and I wrote, in source and PDF forms. It's >> gotten positive feedback from the groff mailing list. >> Regards, >> Branden