[nsd-users] rewrite manpages to mdoc(7)

Jan Stary hans at stare.cz
Mon Jan 2 17:41:24 UTC 2023


On Jan 01 00:05:09, jamie at catflap.org wrote:
> Jan Stary via nsd-users <nsd-users at lists.nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 31 11:43:56, paul at nohats.ca wrote:
> > > Why not go to xml and use xml2man / pandoc ?
> >
> > Because it is a terrible manpage format
> > and the toolchain produces broken crap.
> 
> I have no specific knowledge on this, but would just like to "me too"
> to this thread that whatever format is used, it MUSTN'T impact on the
> quality of any resultant man/mdoc conversion.

What I am proposing is to _write_ the mdoc(7) manpages,
not have them produced by some toolchain or another.

> </bikeshed>

I am concerned that you consider the quality of documentation bikeshiding.


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