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Re: groff/-mandoc replacement



On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:09:41PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> I think you have to handle any valid mdoc input, else you're telling
> people to rewrite their man pages.  If they don't render properly with
> mdocterm, will NetBSD  demand the pages get fixed, or use continue to use
> groff instead?  (It's not just a matter of base, of course, but of
> pkgsrc.) 

With the help of -Werror and if the subset it doesn't support is small
enough, it should be possible to deal with that. All (3) non-trivial
examples I tried it on failed so far, but it is a start.

Joerg


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