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Creating Man Pages in Markdown with Ronn

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As someone who's written a few well known man pages: that's awesome. The 'troff' format is pretty long in the tooth now.

Most Linux man pages are pretty poor quality: for a long time the the upstream Linux maintainer refused to accept any changes eg, adding an EXAMPLES section for cron tables - because Paul Vixie (the cron author) 'might not like them'. Forking man-pages , using markdown as a source format and allowing pull requests would help a lot.

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