Ronn is a fantastic, simple tool that leverages the Markdown you use every day to create man pages for your command-line software.

Converting a man page to markdown is a three step process: installing a tool that can convert the source of a man page to markdown finding the location of the man page source doing the actual conve…

man pages are one of the most tenacious forms of programmer-oriented documentation. These manual pages have changed relatively little since their first publication in 1971. Regardless of whether or not they’re still relevant in the age of the internet, they remain an invaluable reference for any serious command line application or C library function.