I’ve looked at that a bit. Roff and mandoc etc have specialized tagging that’s not easily representable in markdown. You’d wind up with a lot of boilerplate or special non-standard markup, which would undermine the point.

The LLMs are super good at doing that translation, though. They can write those formats no problem.

Docbook is a thing.

It is a thing. But hardly anyone uses it because it’s way too much of a thing.

Their choice, it makes writing man-pages as easy as taking a piss.