rtomayko/ronn
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the opposite of roff
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2012-03-04 · latest 2026-03-30
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…— deterministic compilation of ronn-format Markdown to mdoc. Inspired by Ryan Tomayko's ronn ( https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn ), which I used years ago in some Ruby projects. It also ships as an agent skill (`npx skills add…
comment by mwunsch · 2026-03-30 · in Mansplain – Generate mdoc(7) man pages from –help output using LLMs -
…man page out of it in short order. https://github.com/sunaku/md2man/blob/master/EXAMPLE.markdow... https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn/blob/master/man/ronn-format...
comment by lloeki · 2025-02-10 · in Some terminal frustrations -
See also: `ronn` https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn ...ruby markdown2man
comment by ramses0 · 2023-12-04 · in Kramdown-man: A Kramdown convert for converting Markdown files into man pages -
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Ronn: The Opposite of Roffstory by ingve · 2021-08-30 · 0 comments
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…than the medley of pseudo-formats that CLI tools choose to render their `--help` outputs with. [1]: https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn [2]: https://pandoc.org/ [3]: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/1.4/man/sphinx-build.html
comment by woodruffw · 2020-12-05 · in CLI Guidelines – A guide to help you write better command-line programs -
to these great refs I would recommend the Ruby tool ronn https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn
comment by nessunodoro · 2019-09-21 · in An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line -
…as I have to break out of my dev box and go and open Chrome and look it up there I would still use https://github.com/rtomayko/ronn , simply for the pretty HTML pages though
comment by rubynerd · 2012-03-04 · in Write Unix manpages in Markdown with md2man