Haddock and man pages

Wolfgang Jeltsch wolfgang at jeltsch.net
Fri Jan 2 16:30:09 EST 2004


Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2004 14:02 schrieb Per Larsson:
> Hi,
>
> When you have a good understanding of a programming library  and only need
> to quickly refresh your memory regarding the type signature of a specific
> function, etc., I find man pages very convenient. Are there any plans of
> adding this  as an alternative output format in Haddock? If not, maybe I
> will try to write a patch when I find some spare time, but it would be
> encouraging to know  if this would interest anyone else but myself?

Hello,

I think there is some software to translate some DocBook derivate to man 
pages.  Maybe one could use the DocBook export mechanism of Haddock for man 
page production.  Just and idea.

> Cheers
> Per

Wolfgang



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