Re: Man-writing volunteers?

[Thomas Adam]

2008/8/15 Aaron Davies <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Stephane Chazelas
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:55:26PM +0200, Juergen Weigert wrote:
>
>> > - (later) find a tool to generate both from one source
>>
>> About that, zsh uses yodl as a format that is then used to
>> produce texinfo and man pages. The result is good at least on
>> the info side.
>>
>> So you may want to consider that. I don't know what other
>> projects use.
>
> funny you should mention that--the zsh list in the middle of a thread
> called "Yodl has been discontinued for 13 years... zsh still uses it
> for texi docs?" otoh, their consensus seems to be that it would be
> hard enough for them to move to some other tool that they should
> become the new yodl maintainers....

Well, I already have a few candidates in mind as potential
single-source markup; yodl was never one of them, and certainly won't
be now.

-- Thomas Adam