Re: [Groff] Typesetting Software

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> I've wondered about doing this and in particular noticed that the
> various utilities for converting from, e.g. reStructuredText,
> 
>     http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
> 
> don't have troff backends although they may have LaTeX ones, e.g.
> rst2latex.  I'm guessing this is because the variety of macro packages
> that could be targetted in the troff world.

There's also pandoc, a markdown implementation (markdown is
pretty similar to reStructuredText) which has a groff man
backend.  It probably wouldn't be to hard to extend this
from man to other macro packages.

  http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try