Hi Andrew, Do you have any updates about this? On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 06:15:09PM GMT, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > [I reordered your answer for my response.] > > On 2023-09-05 14:34, Andrew Josey wrote: > > > > hi Alejandro > > > > Apologies for the delay. > > NP > > > > > Are you in touch with Michael Kerrisk? > > Nope. > > > It also appeared in discussions with Michael in 2020, that he had a way to convert the source format to man page format. > > Yep, this is probably "the way": > > <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix.git/tree/posix.py> > > > In the past we have worked with him and made a permissions grant - which outlines the terms we are able to grant — these are limited > > by the copyright holders. > > I understand. Would it be possible to suggest the copyright holders opening a > little bit more? The C++ standard seems to be more open (it has a public git > repository with the source of the drafts) [1]. Maybe POSIX could do something > similar? It would make contributions to the man-pages-posix project easier, > as contributors would be able to test the script with the original sources; > instead of just blindly trying something, and asking the maintainer to try it > with the secret sources. Just to remind of what I'm asking: - A publicly accessible git repository containing (at least) the drafts of the POSIX standard roff(7) sources, similar to <https://github.com/cplusplus/draft> (which is not roff(7); I just mean similar in that it's publicly available, and it contains ISO standard draft sources). I would include that repository as a git submodule of man-pages-posix.git, where I would maintain the translation script for building the manual pages. Have a lovely day! Alex > > [1]: <https://github.com/cplusplus/draft> > > > Cheers, > > Alex > > -- > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> > GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5 > -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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