The docbook2mdoc utility is a converter from DocBook into DocBook V4.x and v5.x XML into mdoc. Unlike most DocBook utilities, it's a standalone ISC-licensed ISO C utility @@ -44,28 +44,22 @@ installed by default on most systems.
- docbook2mdoc is very experimental: it probably won't work with your manual - without improvement. - However, it does work with the DocBook reference manuals (minimally rendered here with mandoc -Thtml): printf, ls, as, iovec. + docbook2mdoc is experimental: it still has many missing elements. + However, it works with the DocBook reference examples and documents found in the wild. + Contact Kristaps with questions or missing nodes; or better yet, download + the source and add new elements yourself as described in the README.
-- Contact Kristaps with questions, but please make sure any formatting issue - hasn't already been covered in the manual. -
New in version @VERSION@...
- Allow for many more node types as found in doclifter output. - These were tested against the RefDB doclifted manuals. - There's still work to be done here, but a lot of it is finished. + Now supports all tags as found in the RefDB tool, which claims to + have extensive DocBook documentation.