Re: Put refpurposes one line for easy manpage generation.

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

Hi Andrew,

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:09 -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > This puts all refpurpose tags and content on one line for better manpage
> > generation. Also did an upload-manpages. The currrent script expects
> > this tag and matching closing tag on one line, if it isn't the
> > description on the man index page will be empty (if someone knows some
> > sed foo to make this more flexible that would be appreciated).
> > http://sourceware.org/frysk/manpages/
> 
> Our man pages are in XML for a reason; surely we can make use of that.  
> A short script should do it.

Then instead of someone with sed foo, we are looking for someone with
some xslt foo :) I am sure both could be used to generate the index
page, I am just not fluent in either. See common/manpages.sh for the
current script which currently uses just a simple sed invocation.

Cheers,

Mark