Re: Summary of man-page formatting

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:03:21PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
 > > Well, there is lout to consider.
 > [...]
 > > I've never used it for manpage rendering though! A simple `awk'
 > > script could indeed do it as its format is quite easy. Uwe has
 > > experience with it :)
 > 
 > Right, and in my experience it would be completely unsuitable. :)
 > 
 > Now, don't get me wrong, I love Lout and and when I need a batch
 > formatter it's what I use unless there are strong overriding reasons.
 > But it's *way* slower than roff or tex (remember, that troff and tex
 > are macro processors, while lout uses a functional language).

If speed is the primary problem it's probably fixable...

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