On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:22:05PM -0500, James Wetterau wrote:
> 
> Curt Sampson says:
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Matthew Orgass wrote:
> > 
> > > * I think it would be a good idea to convert the man pages to DocBook. 
> > > SGML is *much* nicer to read then roff and can be additionally marked up
> > > for more expressive medium.
> > 
> > I'm pretty much in agreement that troff has probably got to go if
> > we're going to have folks who haven't been using Unix since 1980 doing
> > signifcant work on the documentation. Heck, I used to do *everything*
> > in troff, including personal letters, but even I can't stand it now.
> ...
> 
> I'm awfully fond of Perl's POD (plain old documentation) system for
> writing documentation.  It is not a general purpose system for text

Perl is not -- and will not be, unless you want to engage in fisticuffs
with a substantial number of the current NetBSD developers -- included
in NetBSD.