Invisible Man Pages

The Missing Man Pages Poject (or m2p2) aims to provide the man-pages for various applications for UNIX-like Operating Systems, where the author did not provide an adaequate man-page. As proper documentation is crucial for optimal use of an Operating Systems and its tools, it is important that...

A easy to use program to view the man pages that are installed on the current system. The user can search and filter the man pages based on name and section. The user can also export the man page to plain text and styled PostScript. - The window size and split view now remembers its position...

Sman is the Searcher for Man pages. Based on the example of the same name in Josh Rabinowitzs article "How To Index Anything" in the July, 2003 issue of Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6652), sman is an enhanced version of apropos and man -k. Sman project adds several...


Platforms: *nix

Catman Tool is an AppleScript utility that formats (prebuilds) your man pages from their source directories. If manual pages are regenerated, Catman Tool also regenerates the whatis database. This allows for faster displays of your man pages, and also faster searches of your man page systems...


Platforms: Mac

AsciiDoc is a presentable text document format for writing articles, UNIX man pages and other small to medium sized documents. The asciidoc(1) command translates AsciiDoc files to HTML, DocBook and LinuxDoc formats.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

GOSH takes an Usenet-styled ASCII text as input and generates Latex-code, HTML, or Man-pages. Its transformation is easily customizable, which makes GOSH suited for creating web content, papers, letters, and technical documentation.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Experimental browser that natively supports HTML, PDF, man pages, TeX DVI, scanned paper. Annotate with hyperlinks, highlights, notes, executable copy editor markup. [PDF tools for compress, impose, decrypt/encrypt, split/merge have been moved.]


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux

Parse formatted man pages and man page source from most flavors of UNIX. Convert to HTML, ASCII, TkMan, DocBook, and other formats.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

MakeMan is a project to provide several frontends, GUI and non-GUI, to an XML interface to write man pages. MakeMan will use ``DocBook'''s definition (RefEntry) as a basis for man pages to represent the content in SGML, so as to allow a large variety of applications to access the same data. This...


Platforms: *nix

Sman::Man::Convert is a Perl module to convert manpages to XML for sman-update and sman. SYNOPSIS # this module is intended for internal use by sman-update my $smanconfig = new Sman::Config(); $smanconfig->ReadDefaultConfigFile(); my $converter = new Sman::Man::Convert($smanconfig);...


Platforms: *nix

docbook2X is a software package that converts DocBook documents into the GNU Texinfo format and the traditional Unix man page format. Notable features include table support for man pages, internationalization support, and easy customization of the output using XSLT. (Easy, because unlike other...


Platforms: *nix

ManOpen is a MacOS X GUI application for viewing Unix manual pages, which are the standard documentation for Unix command line programs, programmer libraries, and other system information. It can open files directly or be given titles, in which case it will display the output from the `man'...


Platforms: Mac

Convert *nix manual pages into beautiful pdf files.Or open the terminal and type:man -t manual_page_name | open -f -a Preview.app


Platforms: Mac

WeHelpBUS project is a Web-based help browser for Unix-like systems. It is a set of CGI scripts that enables users to browse documentation, stored in various formats, using their preferred Web browser. Current formats supported include Unix man pages, Texinfo pages, Scrollkeeper documentation...


Platforms: *nix

WavSplit splits large WAV files at given time positions. To find out split positions you can use any WAV player or editor with a time display. After unpacking the tarball type these commands: make && make install to start the compilation process and copy the program to /usr/local/bin, and...


Platforms: *nix

manThor is a manfile viewer for Mac OS X, written in Objective-C using the Cocoa Framework. It can search inside the current manpage and display all pages of a manual. manThor acts as a service, to be accessible from inside any Cocoa application (especially Terminal.app).


Platforms: Mac

Boy is a program that reads in c++ header files and converts it to a man page. This generated man page will need to be altered a bit, but the program makes creating man pages much easier.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

iMan is a graphical man page viewer for Mac OS X. It is written using Apple's Cocoa frameworks and provides an attractive and usable GUI for viewing man pages.


Platforms: Mac

docbook2X is a software package that converts DocBook documents into the traditional Unix man page format and the GNU Texinfo format.Notable features include table support for man pages, internationalization support, and easy customization of the output using XSLT. (Easy, because unlike other...


Platforms: *nix, C/C++, BSD

Carnarvon is a software archaeology analysis tool. A lot of software is developed using version control tools from which it is possible to extract even when a single line of code was most recently edited. Collecting this kind of data and analyzing it statistically could show information in terms...


Platforms: *nix