Re: troff converter ?

[Karl Berry]

Hi Pat,

    >    http://texinfo.org/texi2roff/

texi2roff has not been worked on in many years.

    I can't have something formatted like
    a man page.

texi2roff will never be able to generate a man page even if it was
completely up to date, because Texinfo manuals aren't written like man
pages, as I'm sure you know.  Please see the Output Formats node in the
Texinfo manual for what I've written about this.
http://www.gnu.org/manual/texinfo/html_node/Output-Formats.html

There are three realistic choices for making man pages to my knowledge:

1) write and maintain it separately.
2) use help2man.
3) introduce markers in the texinfo source and have a special tool that
extracts them.  GCC does this.  Maybe someday there will be support in
Texinfo for it, but I am not enthused about it, since ultimately the
same text does not work well in both contexts.