[Sumover-dev] Re: [Media Tools] #173: Man page renderer created for Trac

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#173: Man page renderer created for Trac
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  Reporter:  piers           |       Owner:  piers 
      Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  closed
  Priority:  minor           |   Milestone:        
 Component:  CMS/Repository  |     Version:        
Resolution:  fixed           |    Keywords:  trac  
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Changes (by piers):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed

Old description:

> The !ManpageRender allows for users to view manual pages (e.g of VIC and
> RAT) from within Trac as HTML. The native man page format didn't make for
> easy reading - thus the automatic render was created.
>
> Specifically the !ManpageRender implements the
> [http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/trac/mimeview/api.py?rev=5889#
> IHTMLPreviewRenderer] python class which converts the native nroff based
> man page format into HTML using the GNU
> [http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ groff] program.
>
> This allows the native man pages to be maintained in the Subversion
> repository, whilst giving
> general users the ability to easily view the manual pages.

New description:

 The !ManpageRender allows for users to view manual pages (e.g of VIC and
 RAT) from within Trac as HTML. The native man page format didn't make for
 easy reading - thus the automatic render was created.

 Specifically the !ManpageRender implements the
 [http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/trac/mimeview/api.py?rev=5889#
 IHTMLPreviewRenderer] python class which converts the native nroff based
 man page format (mimetype: application/x-troff-man - which Trac recognises
 without the need for an svn propset) into HTML using the GNU
 [http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ groff] program.

 This allows the native man pages to be maintained in the Subversion
 repository, whilst giving
 general users the ability to easily view the manual pages.

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