Question: how to use the extension as man page author (render while typing the man page)

[fmherschel]

Dear all,
maybe a thumb question. I like to use the extension language-roff in atom. I am man page author and would like e.g. to have the man page sources at the left side and the roff-rendered page at the right side.
After installing language-roff I get a new entry in the menue "Packages" named "roff". But this does only allow to open a man page (which does only system installed man pages) and to clear the cache.
How could I render my man page I am currently working on?
Sorry for this maybe-beginner question.

[Alhadis]

👋 Hey mate,

I had a crack at implementing this feature a few years ago, but gave up after I saw how much code was needed to sync an editor with a live display (à la Atom's Markdown previewer). The logic to do so is implemented by markdown-preview package, albeit internally (there's no public API that other packages can leverage to implement live previews in other formats).

I'm not sure if it's even worth revisiting at this point, as GitHub is retiring the Atom project on December 15th. Moreover, working with Atom's APIs is deadset painful, and I loathe the thought of maintaining yet another library to implement something that should already be part of Atom's core. But if you pressure me into finishing it, I might consider doing so. 😉

(Hopefully this weird rambling reply makes sense…)