manpages on website and as appendix in manuals

[Egon Willighagen]

On Sunday 27 May 2001 12:11, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> Now that the documentation is in DocBook XML 4.1 format, maybe
> we could move the manpages to this format as well... (at least for the
> non-POD based instances...)
>
> It would solve/make possible:
> - problems with placing man pages on website
> - inclusion in manual (as appendix)
> - linking between manpages
>
> Conversion to "normal" manpages is done with docbook-to-man, which
> is in the Debian package with the same name...

Two examples of DocBook based man pages can be found at:

  http://docbook.org/tdg/html/refentry.html

Docbook-to-man can be found at:

  http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/tools/dtm/

(For non-Debian users...)

Egon

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