Re: [Patch v3 2/3] man: partial conversion to pod.

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [Patch v3 2/3] man: partial conversion to pod.\r
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+Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:\r
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+> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
+>> From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>\r
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+> In short, I'm really tempted by using markdown as the format, not least\r
+> because it's what we use for the web pages. The big (also literally)\r
+> downside is pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/), the tool for\r
+> converting markdown to man. I don't mind its dependencies, others may\r
+> disagree. Are there any sensible alternatives to pandoc?\r
+\r
+To complicate things, if we did decide on something heavyweight I think\r
+I'd propose we think about rst instead of markdown. I don't rst as well\r
+as markdown, but markdown does feel a little too adhoc to me from time\r
+to time (e.g. a verbatim block forcing the end of a list and so on).\r
+As far as I can tell, there are many incompatible versions of markdown\r
+as soon as you start to want e.g. tables.\r
+\r
+In any case, rst -> man is supported by python-docutils. sphinx supports\r
+both man page generation and texinfo output.  So that would be relatively\r
+lighter weight alternative (??) to pandoc.\r
+\r
+A more radical proposal would be to skip generating info and assuming\r
+everybody can browse html in emacs. That assumption is supposed to\r
+become less ludicrous in emacs24.4 with the inclusion of "eww".\r
+\r
+d\r