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HankB99 | 10 months ago

Will I be struck down or downvoted into oblivion if I mention man2html? Definitely not light weight since it also installs Apache, but I do like to view man pages in the browser. I think 'python3 -m http.server' could be substituted for the server and perform well enough for a single user system.

It's unfortunate that Markdown isn't better standardized so it could be extended to better meet the needs for man pages. (Do we need a new standard to rule them all? Yes, I'm thinking of the XKCD comic.)

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foxyv|10 months ago

Markdown, Markdown Extended, GLFM, Mediawiki Markup, Asciidoc, reStructuredText (RST), Pandoc, Mundimark, Djot, Creole, Textile, BBCode, Dendron, Pendown.

I bet at this point if you came up with a new completely independent standard it would probably match one of the ones already created. We mostly just have to pick one.