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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: Some Sample Projects for 386BSD Message-ID: <1993Mar12.223447.21294@uvm.edu> Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <9303090526.AA07265@fubar.cs.montana.edu> <1nqplq$m11@sax.sax.de> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 22:34:47 GMT Lines: 25 In article <1nqplq$m11@sax.sax.de> joerg@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: >Sorry, i just don't understand why we should walk back??? Only for >the gain of some speed? IMHO, mandoc isn't a bad thing, if someone >feels it's good, he should be even able to convert it into TeX or... >whatever he/she likes. So why give it up? Yes, I agree *very* strongly. -mandoc may be slow, but it has one ENORMOUS advantage: -mandoc macros tag document /structure/; -man macros tag individual bits of /formatting/. Manual pages should not know anything about their formatting. Indeed, I've been contemplating writing a manual page to HTML converter, which is something that can be done *reliably* for -mandoc, but can't for -man. (The existing converters I've seen all turn the *output* of nroff into HTML <PRE> entities, which is not what I want.) So, PLEASE, keep -mandoc! -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant