Re: Status of the yelp man-page parser

[esr thyrsus com (Eric S. Raymond)]

Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>:
> Now, alternatively, a program that reliably turns
> man into DocBook would save us the parse headache,
> but still allow us to control the formatting.  In
> fact, it would be that much easier to make man look
> like everything else.
> 
> We have to be very careful about speed though.

I can give you about 96% reliability, and most pages lift in approximately
a tenth of a second.  But one I know of (wireshark-proto.4) takes 20 minutes
simply because it's huge.
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