Polyglotman – Convert man pages to hyperlinked documents
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What actually is polyglotman?
PolyglotMan is a manual page translator to HTML, ASCII, TkMan, DocBook, and other formats. It Parse formatted man pages and man page source from most flavors of UNIX.
Do you know it is released under License= Artistic License
Features of PolyglotMan
- PolyglotMan takes man pages from most of the popular flavors of UNIX and transforms them into any of a number of text source formats.
- In contrast various man2html filters, which essentially translate bold and italic text and otherwise wrap the entire manual page in PRE tags, PolyglotMan tries to interpret the page and produce good HTML text that can be reflowed.
- Used by All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), OS X users.
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