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Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage
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Anton Shepelev |
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Re: [Tinycc-devel] tinycc manpage |
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Sat, 26 Dec 2020 17:21:18 +0300 |
Sudipto Mallick to Michael Matz:
> As I am reformatting it, I do not find it hard to
> write. It must have been writable enough to be
> used in writing almost all manual pages in OpenBSD
> etc. Also current setup depends on perl to be in-
> stalled, which is not a hard requirement, but
> still ...
I agree that *roff syntax is simultaneosly concise,
writable, and readable, whereas texinfo is a huge
package with a verbose syntax and dependencies on
LaTeX and other third-party formatters. That said,
*roff would be the natural choice for TCC because of
its similar minimalist ideology, but since the offi-
cial documentaion tool for TCC is Texinfo, I fear
your good effort will not appreciated...
> There's also texi2mdoc which is written in C, but
> I haven't tried that.
That means using the makrup language from a large
system, but converting into the language of a sim-
pler system by means of a C program. Everybody will
not like it... I think that using Texinfo directly
is better.