Docbook to Man pages

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sun Aug 13 09:56:16 UTC 2006


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* Bhuvaneswaran:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been looking around for a best way to prepare man pages out of
> our existing documents. Atleast, right now we have an immediate need
> to prepare the man page(s) for the server guide. It really makes sense
> to include the man pages when the user won't install any desktop when
> he uses the Ubuntu system as a server.

Or to ship an ubuntu-server-docs package with the HTML files. Are you
quite sure a "man page" is necessary, it sounds to me like more work
than it is worth. I'm confident we can prepare HTML which looks good in
a text based browser.

Matt
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