November 19, 2023
Last night, I published some man pages of my own software as HTML documents.
They are available here: https://hannesbraun.net/share/man/index.html
Maybe, the web versions are going to be useful for someone. I don’t know.
It’s actually a project that I started back in March this year. But I never
published something. If you are interested, the script I’m using to generate
them is also available: https://git.sr.ht/~hannes/webman
This repository is currently not listed publicly on my account. The scripts
aren’t very flexible right now. But I might polish this up in the future, if it
proves to be useful.
The script itself is making use of
scd2html and
pandoc. After running those tools, it just embeds their
output into a basic HTML template and generates an index for all the man pages
generated.
This project was originally inspired by the manual available on the
website of “Plan 9 from User Space”: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/