Find a suitable tool for manpages

[rehsack]

Since docbook2X is discontinues since ages, a new - actively developed tool for manpages and online-doc should be found.

[rehsack]

My requirements are

• no feature reduce to what we use now (eg. tables in generated manpage)
• target formats: groff (man), html, pdf(latex)

[rehsack]

well - I stumbled over pod2latex (Pod::LaTeX), pod2man and pod2html are common.

So maybe Pod is suitable?

[cicku]

Is asciidoc acceptable?

[rehsack]

It has some learning curve, but it seems to fulfill all requirements. So, it's very likely acceptable ;)

[tdb]

I like the idea of something that's a fairly simple plaintext format that can be converted to the various useful formats we need (html and manpage mainly). Markdown seems fairly well known these days, but I'm not sure if it has enough features or if there are conversion tools around to do what we want.

[cicku]

a2x can generate manpage smoothly, while github favors markdown as well. BTW markdown is pretty popular now.