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Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X
From: |
Ken Hornstein |
Subject: |
Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:05:07 -0400 |
>> I am kinda against depending on some third-party tool
>
>Where does built-in turn into third-party? With all the modern package
>managers, it's trivial to install other tools as needed.
That's a fair question! And one I struggle with. One thing that is
common is we do make a distinction between what DEVELOPERS are required
to have versus what end-users are required to have. E.g.: you need
autoconf/automake/flex to build it from the git repo, but you do not
need any of that to build from a distribution tar file. Something
similar could be done with man pages. Nmh is a "traditional" tool
and we generally have the goal of sticking to "traditional" support
tools, but I acknowledge there is no good definition here and it's
kind of arbitrary what is traditional and what isn't.
In a more practical sense, I am not sure there is anyone with the free
cycles to convert the current man pages into some other markup language.
Yes we could convert the man pages to HTML, but I am not sure there's
a way to convert back. If I am wrong please let me know.
--Ken
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, (continued)
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Bakul Shah, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Anthony J. Bentley, 2023/04/04
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/05
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Conrad Hughes, 2023/04/05
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/06
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/06
Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Robert Elz, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, doug dougwellington . com, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Steven Winikoff, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Steven Winikoff, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, doug dougwellington . com, 2023/04/03
Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/03
Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, doug dougwellington . com, 2023/04/03
Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/03
Number of nmh users. (Was: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X), Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/04
Re: Number of nmh users. (Was: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X), doug dougwellington . com, 2023/04/04