third draft of info manual
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Sun Jan 5 03:39:07 PST 2014
Jani was mentioning how much he loved editing troff, so I decided to
dust off these patches, which as a side effect convert (some of) the
man pages to pod.
As I write this, I realized that the second commit message is sort of
a lie, I now use a quick and dirty perl script [1] to do the conversion.
I have also updated the converted pages to take into account man page
edits since April. Since this is a semi-manual process, I don't want
to convert (and therefore have to update) all of the man pages at this
stage.
An earlier version of the series is at
mid:1366852752-3584-1-git-send-email-david at tethera.net
[1]:
#!/usr/bin/perl
open(POD,"groff -e -mandoc -Tascii -rHY=0 | rman -f POD|") || die;
LINE:
while(<POD>){
my $blank=0;
while (m/^\s*$/) {
$_=<POD>;
$blank++;
}
print "\n" if ($blank);
while(s/^(=head1 .*)B[<]/\1/){};
while(s/^(=head1 .*)[>]/\1/){};
s/ */ /g;
print;
}
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