Re: [RFC PATCH liburing] man: Convert manpages to markdown

Ammar Faizi <[email protected]> writes:

> On 6/19/26 6:05 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
>> This has been discussed for a while due to the ongoing pain of writing
>> groff.  Now that we just had a release, convert the manpages to markdown
>> and add infrastructure to generate back the groff automatically during
>> compilation.
>
> Wow, big changes:
>
>    399 files changed, 11719 insertions(+), 18975 deletions(-)
>
> Yeah, I agree that writing in GNU roff is more painful than writing in
> markdown. Interesting patch.

Yeah, this is gonna be shitty to review.  The conversion was done
mostly automatically though, you can review Makefile for that.

I'll split it up into manageable chunks.

>
> Can we also word-wrap the markdown files? It's easier to read them in
> raw if they're word-wrapped as well.

Let me see if I can get the right pandoc incantation.

-- 
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi