From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2004-07-17T03:57:42+09:00
Subject: Re: man pages for ruby - was Re: Fundamental question

Linux Doc Book supports man pages. You can create the sgml with lyx  for
example and then use 'sgml2txt -m'

Guillaume.

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 12:52, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> > Hal Fulton wrote:
> >> Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> >>
> >> I can't answer your question. I hope someone can.
> >>
> >>>  "man <rdoc,ri,rbbr>" and  "rdoc <rdoc,ri,rbbr>" does not gave
> >>>  anything of output on my box.
> >>
> >>
> >> This interests me. AFAIK there have never been man pages for any
> >> Ruby-related tools.
> >>
> >> How does one create man pages anyhow?
> 
> use rdtool:
> 
> 
>    ~ > cat sample.rd
>    = SYNOPSIS
>      sample page
>    = BUGS
>      many
>    = AUTHOR
>      me
> 
>    ~ > rd2 -r rd/rd2man-lib sample.rd > sample.man
> 
>    ~ > env PAGER=cat man ./sample.man
>    -(1)                                                                      -(1)
> 
> 
> 
>    SYNOPSIS
>               sample page
> 
>    BUGS
>               many
> 
>    AUTHOR
>               me
> 
> 
> -a
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