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A simple Markdown to roff translator seems like an ideal project for an AI to tackle.

• ctmnt 8mo ago
  I’ve looked at that a bit. Roff and mandoc etc have specialized tagging that’s not easily representable in markdown. You’d wind up with a lot of boilerplate or special non-standard markup, which would undermine the point. The LLMs are super good at doing that translation, though. They can write those formats no problem.
• jjgreen 8mo ago
  Docbook is a thing.
  • drob518 8mo ago
    It is a thing. But hardly anyone uses it because it’s way too much of a thing.
    • jjgreen 8mo ago
      Their choice, it makes writing man-pages as easy as taking a piss.