Re: [PATCH v2] devel: make man-to-mdwn.pl to work with generated manual pages

Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] devel: make man-to-mdwn.pl to work with generated manual pages

Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:04:54 +0100

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi

From: David Bremner


Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:

> The new manual pages converted from rst using sphinx or rst2man
> has somewhat different syntax. man-to-mdwn.pl is now adjusted
> to produce even better output from this syntax. The changes also
> include using utf-8 locale (e.g. for tables and generated hypens)
> and and quite a few bugs fixes.
> This tool still produces better results than just using the
> html pages generated using sphinx / rst2html. For example those
> tools don't create inter-page hyperlinks -- and the preformatted
> pages written by man-to-mdwn.pl just works well with manual page
> content.

Pushed, along with the successor.

d

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