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Creating Man Pages in Markdown with Ronn

2 pointsby silentbicycleabout 10 years ago

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nailerabout 10 years ago
As someone who&#x27;s written a few well known man pages: that&#x27;s awesome. The &#x27;troff&#x27; format is pretty long in the tooth now.<p>Most Linux man pages are pretty poor quality: for a long time the the upstream Linux maintainer refused to accept any changes eg, adding an EXAMPLES section for cron tables - because Paul Vixie (the cron author) &#x27;might not like them&#x27;. Forking man-pages , using markdown as a source format and allowing pull requests would help a lot.