On: Pandoc

[ashton314]

I wrote a little utility that uses Pandoc to read Markdown files like `man` pages in the terminal:

https://github.com/ashton314/marked-man

It's just a one-liner: `pandoc -s -t man "$1" | groff -T utf8 -man | $PAGER`

(That was basically stolen from an answer to one of my questions on Stack Overflow—thanks to those who answered! :)

[mixedmath → ashton314]

In a similar vein, I use pandoc to convert markdown pages to man pages, and write new/add notes to manpages. I think it's definitely easier than actually writing groff files.

[beefhash → mixedmath]

I find it easier to write man pages directly. Admittedly, I write mdoc (not the ancient "man" macros), which has been around only since the 80s. It's easier for me to remember the semantics ("Is this a flag/command/function?") than the correct traditional markup ("Should this be bold/italic/nothing?").