[Tex/LaTex] Writing manpage / reference manual for software in LaTeX

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Is it a good idea to write your software manual pages (manpages) / reference manuals using TeX? I'm new to TeX and exploring my options around this.

I'd be able to deliver a manpage.pdf along with the sources, but I'd also like to put them online. Not only in PDF format, but also as HTML or within a MediaWiki. Is this possible? And how?

What would be a good template / example to start with? Any .sty file to add manpage functionality?

Thank you

Best Answer

I'm not sure how one would write a man page in TeX. If you open one up in an editor, you can see that they're written in *roff.

For reference manuals, see the answers to this question.

There are several ways one can produce html files from a TeX file. Some information is given in this question.

I've never heard of producing MediaWiki's markup from LaTeX.

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