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2019-12-15	doc: replace pandoc-"Markdown" with real manpages
	Trying to install pandoc on an x86-64 Debian stable system says: > Need to get 15.2 MB of archives. > After this operation, 117 MB of additional disk space will be used. My laptop is on metered Internet nowadays and already low on disk space, so installing pandoc is not realistic. Maybe it wasn't realistic to other hackers with limited resources in the past. There's also dozens of subtly incompatible Markdown flavors out there, most of which can't really handle manpages. Anyways, roff isn't too bad and at least groff is well-documented. Updating the website now requires olddoc 1.8.0 (which is much smaller than pandoc), but I'm the only one with that burden. On the flipside more users can update and read the manpages locally without extra software, since nearly every developer's *nix system has man(1) command, unlike pandoc.
2009-09-15	Add new Documentation section for manpages
	Only "unicorn(1)" is documented right now, but more will be added. Manpages are written Markdown since it's easy to write, easy to read (in source form) and a widely-implemented format. As of September 2009, pandoc is the only Markdown processor I know of capable of turning Markdown into manpages. So despite adding a dependency on Haskell (not yet very common these days) for documentation, the features and performance of pandoc+Markdown outweigh the drawbacks compared to other lightweight markup systems.