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.. _reStructuredText:
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html
.. _NumPy/SciPy documentation guide:
- http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/CodingStyleGuidelines
+ https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt
Man page
========
-The man-page source :file:`be.1.xml` is writen in DocBook 5 [#DB5]_
-format. The :file:`Makefile` converts it to :manpage:`roff(7)` format
-using an XSLT stylesheet. See DocBook XSL [#DBXSL]_ for details.
-See :doc:`install` for suggestions on setting up a DocBook 5 toolchain
-in several distributions.
+The man-page source :file:`be.1.txt` is writen in reStructuredText.
+The :file:`Makefile` converts it to :manpage:`roff(7)` format using
+Docutils_ ``rst2man``.
The man page should conform to `Debian policy`_.
-.. [#DB5]
- See Norman Walsh's `DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide
- <http://www.docbook.org/>`_
-
-.. [#DBXSL]
- See Bob Stayton's `DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
- <http://www.sagehill.net/book-description.html>`_
-
-.. _Debian policy: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.1
+.. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
+.. _Debian policy:
+ http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html