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<jxself>I'll work to get it on audio-video.gnu.org later today. <viric>civodul: is there any non-frustrating way of writing a manpage? <viric>I don't like troff, I don't ilke docbook, I don't like asciidoc, ... <viric>I might try the halibut thing *youlysses wonders how hard it'd be to rig skribilo to write manpages. <viric>mi ne pretas lerni tiun lispaĵon, malgraŭ ties nomo ;) <viric>I can't stand so much parentheses <youlysses>viric: Tio estus "Guile" tiam. Wow, it feels so long since I was looking into Esperanto -- Remembering it broke my brain. :^) <youlysses>viric: You get used to it. I first started in that mind-set, and about a week or-so exposed to it -- I feel in love with it. <viric>I always thought that all advertisements about easy debugging would pull me in <viric>but I never understood enough the advertised advantages <davexunit>viric: can't stand parentheses? you might be in the wrong channel. <viric>I'm waiting for something that will compensate for the parentheses <viric>at least, I don't understand it enough <viric>to see what part is thanks to scheme, and what part is thanks to civodul :) <davexunit>have you ever read any bits of SICP or the little schemer? <davexunit>those books revealed the elegance of scheme to me. <viric>hm some pieces, but I don't think I understood it fully <viric>I've more problems with info than with manpages, tbh :) <civodul>you might have problems with the UI, but conceptually, man pages are a no-go for any non-trivial piece of software <viric>Yes, the UI. I used tkinfo; it was more pleasant. But I agree about the limits of man pages <viric>Now I think if I ever wrote a non-trivial piece of software. :) <davexunit>I'm starting to learn to read info pages in emacs. <youlysses>davexunit: Yeah, info pages are a great source of information! Syntactically though, I'm not a huge fan of texinfo -- though actual LaTex seems passable. Prior to learning about Skribilo, org-mode looks very promising to a means to exporting to info; Now I'm really looking forward to the benefits said Skribilo can/will allot. :^)