Re: Summary of man-page formatting

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:54:46 +0100, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:

> Well, there is lout to consider.
[...]
> I've never used it for manpage rendering though! A simple `awk'
> script could indeed do it as its format is quite easy. Uwe has
> experience with it :)

Right, and in my experience it would be completely unsuitable. :)

Now, don't get me wrong, I love Lout and and when I need a batch
formatter it's what I use unless there are strong overriding reasons.
But it's *way* slower than roff or tex (remember, that troff and tex
are macro processors, while lout uses a functional language).

-uwe