Re: Summary of man-page formatting

[Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:08:39AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:03:21PM +0300, Valery Ushakov 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).
> 
> If speed is the primary problem it's probably fixable...

Yeah, who uses rendering a manpage in a tight loop ;) If it runs on the older
machines in a few seconds I don't think its going to be an issue. And it isn't
that slow is it?

Reinoud