On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Anders Dinsen wrote:

: Unroff seems to be a great tool for html'ifying troff documents. But
: it is incompatible with the BSD man pages. For example
: 
: unroff -fhtml -man /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1
: 
: does'nt show up correctly.
: 
: Any experience, anyone?

BSD manual pages are not -man type troff documents.  They are -mdoc
documents.  That's why they won't work with unroff.  You'd need a -mdoc (or
a -man that handles -mdoc, such as how our nroff does) backend for unroff.

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