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I appreciate you sharing this! I wasn't aware of the exact ontology of how roff vs. man relate, and I went through several iterations of this post trying to get this right. There being other tools -- groff, nroff, etc. -- added to my confusion. A blog post unto itself is "here is what roff/man page/nroff/other variants are, here's how to use them." I would have appreciated a succinct description; I'm sure others would, too.
As for markdown to roff, I thought about it as a v2. As I started to think about implementing a parser, someone shared https://github.com/sunaku/md2man with me, which appears to solve the problem.
I'd need to figure out how to integrate this into my (Python) site that is built on GitHub Pages; a bit of tinkering would be required :D
If you like this you might like mdless, which is exactly what it sounds like.
https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless
If you want to do your own ASCII video via telnet, I did it in Go a few years back: https://github.com/bfontaine/RickASCIIRoll
It’s actually quite simple; the hardest part is to generate the frames but that can be done with ffmpeg+img2txt.py: https://github.com/bfontaine/RickASCIIRoll/tree/master/movie....
This is now in progress.
https://github.com/capjamesg/jamesg.blog.deb has all you need to build a man-page-only deb file using:
git clone https://github.com/capjamesg/jamesg.blog.deb
