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📚 Converts markdown into UNIX manual pages

4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2012-03-04 · latest 2025-02-10

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  1. …roff, you can write a quite dumb markdown file and produce a 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
  2. …roff, I thought about it as a v2. As I started to think about implementing a parser, someone shared https://github.com/sunaku/md2man with me, which appears to solve the problem. I'd need to figure out how to integrate this into my (Python)…
    comment by zerojames · 2024-02-29 · in Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
  3. md2man's input is already Markdown and its Roff output already supports hyperlinks: https://github.com/sunaku/md2man/blob/master/test/md2man/rof...
    comment by TerminalPrgrmr · 2012-03-05 · in Write Unix manpages in Markdown with md2man