Re: More man pages now rendered at man7.or

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Hi Michael,

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 03:22:24PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> As detailed in this blog post [1], I've expanded the set of man pages
> rendered in HTML at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/ to include pages
> in addition to those provided by the man-pages project. This change
> has several purposes.

> One main purpose is to provide a up-to-date and regularly updated) HTML
> renderings of these man pages. (Most online man page renderings are
> out-of-date to some extent--in some cases, extremely out of date.) The other
> main purpose is to provide information on where to report bugs in each man
> page. To this end, each HTML rendering includes a COLOPHON that describes the
> origin of the page, notes the date when it was extracted, and provides
> information on where to report bugs in the page. (The man-pages project has
> already done this since December 2007, with the result that many more man
> page bugs are nowadays reported.)

A big thanks for that.
(How) Do you plan to deal with translations ?

perkamon-fr, the project which translates man-pages to french, provides them
at:
http://perkamon.traduc.org/
 
> I'm open to adding further projects to the rendered set, if they seem
> relevant. If you think there is a project that should be added, take a look
> at this blog post [3].

Actually, I would me interested in the code used to generate your side.

In Debian, we have http://manpages.debian.net/ whose rendering could be
improved a lot.

It currently shows the manpages of *ALL* packages in Debian, for all languages.

Exemple:
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=git&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+6.0+squeeze&format=html&locale=en

-- 
Simon Paillard
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