[Nexus] How many of you have rst2man available on their Linux distribution

Stuart Campbell campbellsi at ornl.gov
Fri Dec 4 12:58:56 GMT 2015


Hi,
It doesn't seem to be available for Fedora/RHEL/Centos - but I doubt it 
would be difficult to build it.
Cheers
Stu

On 12/04/2015 05:25 AM, Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
> Hi folks,
>    I was just thinking about how to simplify the generation of program
> documentation. Every command line program should come with a man-page.
> However, formatting man pages manually is rather tedious. We already use
> sphinx for the generation of the NeXus definitions HTML and PDF
> documentation. So I was thinking to streamline the documentation
> generation totally on restructures text.
> To obtain man-pages from rst files one could either use
>
> * sphinx
> * rst2man
>
> Is it safe to assume that actual Linux distributions a user runs have
> theses tools available from their package manager?
> On Debian I know that this would work. Can you give me short report how
> this would work out on the distributions you are using?
>
> regards
>    Eugen
>
>
>
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