Re: man pages are littered with .ft C and others

Jonas Fonseca [off-list ref] writes:

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote Tue, Feb 05, 2008:

quoted

P.S. writing subset of AsciiDoc in Perl, which would write manpages, HTML
and perhaps info/texinfo files directly, without fragile xmlto toolchain,
looks better and better...

But not as easy as just pulling the documentation branches.

But your approach has a small flaw of chicken-and-egg problem
;-).