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Description:
Small man page generator

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: documentation man-pages markup developer-tools roff

Install: brew install scdoc

About:
Scdoc is a simple man page generator that reads documents written in a lightweight, readable markup syntax and outputs standard roff format for Unix man pages. It focuses on doing one thing well, providing a straightforward alternative to complex tools like pandoc for generating man pages. Its simplicity makes it easy to integrate into build systems for software documentation.

Key Features:

Simple, readable markup syntax
Outputs standard roff/man page format
Lightweight with minimal dependencies
Easy to integrate into build pipelines

Use Cases:

Generating man pages for software projects
Converting simple documentation to troff format
Authoring manual pages in a version-control friendly format

Alternatives:

pandoc – Pandoc is a universal document converter that can generate man pages from many formats, but is significantly larger and more complex than Scdoc.
ronn – Ronn generates man pages from a similar markup but is written in Ruby and has more dependencies than the C-based Scdoc.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 10, 2025 9:00am		0	VERSION_BUMP	461e73a0