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Vapier wrote: [Mon Nov 29 2004, 09:17:20AM CST] |
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> On Monday 29 November 2004 02:36 am, Mark Miller wrote: |
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> > I was wondering if the Gentoo Development team would be interested in |
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> > a Python script that would automatically convert all the troff and all |
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> > the other formats of man pages into a DocBook format, which HTML can |
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> > easily be generated out of, and incorporate this into the Gentoo |
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> > system. |
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> |
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> for what purpose ? to have HTML versions of all manpages that exist ? |
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> -mike |
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I've always been really impressed with the *BSDs online manpage |
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databases, but those databases make more sense for the monolithic *BSDs |
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than they do for the quite heterogeneous Linux distros. That said, I do |
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think that it would be nice if we had the man pages for Gentoo tools |
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available online. I would suggest using man2html instead of a full |
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conversion to docbook, however. |
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Let's see, that would mean converting the man pages in portage, |
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certainly, as well as those in gentoolkit and gentoolkit-dev. It looks |
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like baselayout also includes some man pages, and I believe that I |
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included man pages for our mailwrapper package. Are there other |
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Gentoo-specific man pages that we should include? Should we also |
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include the tenshi and keychain man pages since they're predominantly |
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Gentoo projects? Oh, what about the various *-config programs' man |
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pages? |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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