[publican-list] Docbook XML to manpages?

[Lana Brindley]

Murray McAllister wrote:
> Lana Brindley wrote:
>> Murray McAllister wrote:
>>> Christopher Curran wrote:
>>>> Can we build manpages with publican at the moment? Can this be a 
>>>> feature add if it's not there yet?
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> publican-list mailing list
>>>> publican-list at redhat.com
>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list
>>>> Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican
>>> Dominick Grift helped me with this. Try:
>>>
>>> groff -Tascii -man file-you-want-to-edit
>>>
>>
>> Does that work on pages written in docbook xml?
>>
>> L
>>
> Why would man pages be written in XML, and why inflict such pain on 
> people who have to write them ;)
> 
> 
True enough, but the fact remains that people ask me to write man pages, 
and I know Docbook XML. Therefore, it would be nice to able to write 
them in that. Unless of course, we're going to be moving to LaTeX any 
time soon (which would warm my little TeXy heart, but is wholly unlikely 
to happen).

L
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: lbrindle.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 976 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/publican-list/attachments/20081121/f5a9f8ea/attachment.vcf>