Re: man pages for our apps?

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:45:13AM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote:
> It should be doable. It will mean you will need to write some new
> stylesheets that output troff from DocBook.  Isn't that what the style
> sheets are for?
> >
> > If there were some way to autogenerate at least a simple man page from
> > the docbook markup that we have (similar to the way that "info
> > --usage" autogenerates manpage-like output from texinfo markup), it
> > would be well worth providing.
> 
> 

I think it's less a question of "can we do it technically" or "would
it benefit users" and more a question of "do we have the time". As a
group, we've got a long todo list.

That said, if someone wants to jump in and volunteer...

Cheers,
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John Fleck
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