doclifter lifts documents in nroff markups to XML-DocBook. This package ships two Python scripts: _doclifter translates documents written in troff macros like man pages to DocBook, that can then be converted to other formats or translated. _manlifter is a mass-conversion script and test harness for doclifter. It can find and convert _all_ man pages in your system with one simple command, but in a few cases. See the man pages, also in HTML format in /usr/doc/docfilter*/html docfilter's author is Eric S. Raymond.