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Re: man pages are littered with .ft C and others

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 5, 2008, 00:28 UTC
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Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk> writes:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote Tue, Feb 05, 2008:
>
>> P.S. writing subset of AsciiDoc in Perl, which would write manpages, HTML
>> and perhaps info/texinfo files directly, without fragile xmlto toolchain,
>> looks better and better...
>
> But not as easy as just pulling the documentation branches.

But your approach has a small flaw of chicken-and-egg problem ;-).

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  1. Adam FlottFeb 2, 2008
  2. Geert BoschFeb 2, 2008
  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 2, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiFeb 3, 2008
  6. Jonas FonsecaFeb 4, 2008
  7. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2008
  8. Jonas FonsecaFeb 5, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2008
  10. Jakub NarebskiFeb 5, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2008

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