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Re: Fwd: creating man pages



On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 11:44:22PM +0100, John Travers wrote:
> Is there a way to make manpages or texinfo files from .dvi or .tex files? 

>From .dvi?  No.  You're asking for a decompiler.

>From .tex? Possibly, but only manually.  The process cannot be automated
easily: it requires too much heuristics.  Unless, of course, the .tex
file was written with such a conversion in mind.

> If there is a texinfo file, do I need a manpage?

Not having a manpage is a policy violation.

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