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Re:Why the heck are we still using Markdown? by fanf2 on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:27PM (#47635036)
If the manpage is written with the 4.4BSD -mdoc semantic markup macros then it can contain hyperlinks like

  .Lk https://dotat.at/ "Tony Finch’s web site"
And the mandoc tools will include them in their really nice HTML output. It will also hyperlink .Xr cross-references to other man pages.

https://mandoc.bsd.lv/

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