Wiki to man converter

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This project is about developing scripts for generating manual pages directly from wiki web based sources. It consists of scripts which download wiki source files from wiki server over the web, convert it from wiki to roff format and make archive of manual pages.

It consists of too parts:

  1. Scripts for downloading wiki-formatted manual pages from some wiki server via HTTP wiki2file that are server dependant, but you can easier add new server support. For now only following servers are supported:

    docs.linux.org.ua (DLOU) - Ukrainian localisation of Unix Manual Pages.

    ru.gentoo-wiki.com (RGWC) - Russian special localisation of Gentoo manual pages.

  2. Scripts for converting wiki to roff and preparing ready to install archives of man pages. These scripts support input file in any encoding, all conversion from wiki to roff is done in Unicode. Output of roff formatted manual pages can be in any given encoding.

You can download the latest version of wiki2man from release page and generate archive of man pages by yourself.

Also you can download ready to install archive of manual pages:

Any critic and help would be appreciated.