[TUHS] Collecting notes for future “historians” was: Earliest UNIX Workstations?
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Fri Jan 27 10:53:51 AEST 2023
You just got my head all abuzz on whether a *roff<->MediaWiki transpiler would be: 1. Possible and 2. Beneficial.
We use a MediaWiki at work for aggregating random tidbits from people that they think might get lost in project noise. There's times I'd love to have some way to *roff-ize the materials for white papers, the printouts from MediaWiki are uuuuugly. Benefits on the flip-side would be rapidly getting all sorts of documentation into Wiki format pretty quickly.
Of course, for an actual documentation project, there would need to be a master as diverse edits in different places wouldn't track with one another. In this case, the *roff sources would probably make a better master for diff reasons.
- Matt G.
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, January 26th, 2023 at 4:36 PM, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> At 2023-01-26T14:41:50-0800, Joseph Holsten wrote:
>
> > And if I’m writing in troff, is there a preferred macro set for
> > articles these days? A decade ago I wrote manuals in mdoc but papers
> > in LaTeX; these days I just lean on pandoc to translate. I’ll need to
> > knock my rust off.
>
>
> There's always ms. It's pretty easy to acquire, and will produce
> authentic looking traditional Unix papers with little effort. Here's a
> manual that Larry Kollar and I wrote, in source and PDF forms. It's
> gotten positive feedback from the groff mailing list.
>
> Regards,
> Branden
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