[PATCH] devel: make man-to-mdwn.pl to work with generated manual pages

David Bremner david at tethera.net
Sun Jul 13 05:11:29 PDT 2014


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> writes:

> The new manual pages converted from rst using sphinx or rst2man
> has somewhat different syntax. man-to-mdwn.pl is now adjusted
> to produce even better output from this syntax (a bug ot two
> was fixed along the adjustents done).
> This tool still produces better results than just using the
> html pages generated using sphinx / rst2html. For example those
> tools don't create inter-page hyperlinks -- and the preformatted
> pages written by man-to-mdwn.pl just works well with manual page
> content.

I'm marking this 'moreinfo' to remind Tomi to investigate why it doesn't
work well for me in Debian testing when he gets back to it. I get about
60 columns of text, and no links.

d


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