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Posted by: Administrator on February 13, 2004 07:16 PM
Another good way to generate man pages is to write in DocBook XML (or the older SGML variant), which is designed for technical documentation. There are de-facto-standard stylesheets to generate nroff man page source from DocBook documents, as well as a wide variety of other formats (so it becomes very easy to generate HTML versions, for instance).


(It's a vastly better solution that the abominable "info"!)

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