SUMMARY: Man Page Editor

From: Mark B. Hamby (mark@leav-156-100.army.mil)
Date: Wed Sep 13 1995 - 17:12:05 CDT


QUESTION:

> From: mark@leav-156-100.army.mil (Mark B. Hamby)
> Subject: man page editor
>
> How do you create man pages other than editing in troff?
> Are there man page editors or conversion utilities?
> I am sure emacs has a mode for this, but I am not ready to learn emacs yet.
>

ANSWERS (abridged):

Note: Many thanks to all who responded. The answer is NO. If anyone
has a better answer, please inform me and I will re-summarize. -- Mark

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> From: Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
>
> troff (the man macros actually) is what man understands, so you're stuck
> with that.
>
> emacs does have an "nroff-mode" that highlights things nicely and lets
> you move around quickly.
>
> vi does have some things to deal with paragraphs and such, but not as
> friendly as the emacs version.
>
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> From: celeste@stokely.com (Celeste Stokely)
>
> We once wrote a MIF-to-man filter set in Perl for a client, where we authored
> in FrameMaker and spit out troff. You could write something similar, but it's
> a lot of work. Best way is to just grab a full-featured man page and re-edit
> it in your favorite plain-text editor to fit your content.
>
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> From: Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com>
>
> I've never seen an editor as such. If you've got WWW access
> you probably can find a man->html converter. Check on Yahoo
> (http://www.yahoo.com/) under the WWW heading.
>
> Well, emacs has a troff mode, but it doesn't do anything other
> than help you format the source file nicely.
>



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