Bug#154590: RFA: docbook-to-man -- Converter from DocBook SGML into roff -man macros.
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 01:18:00PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote:
> I request an adopter for the docbook-to-man package.
> The package description is:
> The docbook-to-man tool is a batch converter that transforms
> UNIX-style manpages from the DocBook SGML DTD into nroff/troff -man
> macros. This is not the original version by Fred Dalrymple, but
> one with the ANS modifications by David Bolen.
>
> New maintainer: You should know roff to fix some open bugs.
> There's no upstream maintainer. The tool is very useful,
> anyway.
I don't really know enough SGML to deal with this properly myself.
However, as the groff maintainer I'm happy to supply *roff help to
anyone who's interested and needs it; I'd like to see docbook-to-man do
as good a job as possible.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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