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Re: elfutils / man pages
- From: Andrew Hecox <ahecox at redhat dot com>
- To: elfutils-devel at lists dot fedorahosted dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:29:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: elfutils / man pages
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> I'll try to get together a manual page per week on the user-oriented
>> tools, and see where that goes... I'm not a big fan of over-planning. ;)
>
> Cool!
>
> I just noticed we have the doc/ directory with doc/elfutils.sgml. The
> content in there is ancient and not real useful (I wouldn't much try to
> save it). But it does maybe give an indicator of what Uli's preference for
> documentation source format might be.
>
> So maybe what you should be writing is docbook(?) sgml that can generate
> man page format. That might be what everybody does now, I'm out of touch.
> (I just see that docbook2man exists.)
cool, I'll check it out.
Being able to generate html/pdf/man pages at once seems like a nice
feature.
Andrew
>
>
> Thanks,
> Roland
>
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