Re: Template for GNOME man pages.
- From: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
- To: gnome-doc-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Template for GNOME man pages.
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 03:18:21 +1100
<quote who="Pat Costello"/>
> When you say "convert it to a man page", what exactly do you mean? Do you
> mean that the final output is nroff? If so, why not write the man page in
> nroff in the first place? What's the aim of writing in one format (xml) if
> we have to convert to another?
[ I'd offer that the Docbook XML is easier to read and maintain for a docs
project that works almost entirely with Docbook XML already. :-) ]
- Jeff
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