“Writing man pages using roff today is not very fun or intuitive.” Depends on who you ask: for me the best part of delivering software which I wrote is writing

“Writing man pages using roff today is not very fun or intuitive.” Depends on who you ask: for me the best part of delivering software which I wrote is writing the manual pages in straight nroff in vi, with lots of examples. Seeing the engine typeset my documentation exactly the way I want is always an awesome feeling. It looks like to me that “um” is a reactionary effort because of the notoriously poor quality of GNU/Linux manual pages which often lack examples; if so, then the solution is to switch to a higher quality operating system like FreeBSD or SmartOS / illumos.