generate man page from markdown

Use ronn to convert markdown to a man page
This simplifies maintaining the documentation.

This fixes #31.
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.\" Hey, Emacs! This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
.\" Espeakup is Copyright 2008 by William Hubbs.
.\" This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 3
.\" or later for copying conditions. There is NO warranty.
.TH ESPEAKUP 8 "5 Nov 2008" "0.60"
.nh
.SH NAME
espeakup \(em connect Speakup to the ESpeak TTS engine
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B espeakup
[
.B \-\^\-pid-path=path
]
[
.B \-\^\-default-voice=voicename
]
[
.B \-\^\-debug
]
[
.B \-\^\-help
]
[
.B \-\^\-version
]
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-P path, \-\^\-pid-path=path
Set the full path for the pid file espeakup uses when in daemon mode.
.TP
.B \-V voicename, \-\^\-default-voice=voicename
Set the espeak voice to be used by default.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\^\-debug
run in the foreground, rather than becoming a daemon process.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\^\-help
display a brief help message and exit.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\^\-version
output version information and exit.
.SH DESCRIPTION
Espeakup bridges the gap between two tools: the Speakup screen review
system and the ESppeak text-to-speech engine. Each of these tools
performs a well-defined task. Speakup is a kernel-based screen reader
for the Linux console. It extracts and processes the text that is
displayed on the foreground virtual console. It supports several
hardware based speech synthesizers directly. However, since it is in
kernel space, it cannot support a software speech synthesizer directly
since these are in user space.
ESpeak is a popular software speech synthesizer. It is small, light
weight, very responsive, and supports multiple languages.
Espeakup is a connector which will read text sent to it by speakup and
forward it to ESpeak. This allows Speakup to use ESpeak as its speech
synthesizer.
.PP
Espeakup is a daemon. Typically, it is started at boot time, and it terminates
when the system is halted or rebooted. It should be started by the
system's init scripts. This process varies among Linux distributions,
but the details are usually managed by the person who packaged Espeakup for
your distribution.
From the perspective of an average user, Espeakup's operation is invisible.
.SH BUGS
.PP
Espeakup is still classified as alpha software. Bugs are periodically found
and fixed. If you find a bug, please do report it to the author. You
might also consider mentioning it on the mailing list for the Speakup
screenreader. Visit http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
to learn more about the mailing list.
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
For more information about Speakup, visit its homepage: http://linux-speakup.org.
ESpeak's home page is http://espeak.sourceforge.net.
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
William Hubbs is the author and maintainer of Espeakup. He may be reached
via the email address <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>. This manual page was written
by Chris Brannon, and his email address is <cmbrannon79@gmail.com>.

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<!-- markdownlint-disable MD036 -->
# espeakup(8) --- connect Speakup to the espeak-ng TTS engine
## SYNOPSIS
`espeakup` [`--pid-path=`<path>] [`--alsa-volume`]
[`--default-voice=`[<voicename>]] [`--debug`] [`--help`] [`--version`]
## OPTIONS
* `-P` <path>, `--pid-path=`<path>:
Set the full path for the pid file espeakup uses when in daemon mode.
* `--alsa-volume`:
Drive the ALSA volume. useful for live environments where volume
adjustments maybe impossible.
* `-V` <voicename>, `--default-voice=`<voicename>:
Set the espeak-ng voice to be used by default.
* `-d`, `--debug`:
run in the foreground, rather than becoming a daemon process.
* `-h`, `--help`:
display a brief help message and exit.
* `-v`, `--version`:
output version information and exit.
## DESCRIPTION
espeakup bridges the gap between two tools: the Speakup screen review system and
the espeak-ng text-to-speech engine. Each of these tools performs a
well-defined task.
Speakup is a kernel-based screen reader for the Linux console. It extracts and
processes the text that is displayed on the foreground virtual console. It
supports several hardware based speech synthesizers directly. However, since it
is in kernel space, it cannot support a software speech synthesizer directly
since these are in user space.
espeak-ng is a popular software speech synthesizer. It is small, light weight,
very responsive, and supports multiple languages. espeakup is a connector which
will read text sent to it by speakup and forward it to espeak-ng. This allows
Speakup to use espeak-ng as its speech synthesizer.
espeakup is a daemon. Typically, it is started at boot time, and it terminates
when the system is halted or rebooted. It should be started by the system's init
scripts. This process varies among Linux distributions, but the details are
usually managed by the person who packaged espeakup for your distribution. From
the perspective of an average user, espeakup's operation is invisible.
## BUGS
If you find a bug, please create a
[github issue](https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/issues)
You might also consider mentioning it on the mailing list for the Speakup
screenreader. Visit
[list page](https://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup)
to learn more about the mailing list.
## SEE ALSO
For more information about Speakup, visit its
[homepage](https://linux-speakup.org).
espeak-ng can be found at [github](https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng)
## AUTHOR
William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com> is the author of espeakup.
This manual page was written by Chris Brannon <cmbrannon79@gmail.com>.
current authors and maintainers can be found at
[github](https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/graphs/contributors)

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install_man('espeakup.8') ronn = find_program('ronn', required: get_option('man'))
if ronn.found()
custom_target('man', input:files('espeakup.8.ronn'),
output:'espeakup.8',
command:[ronn, '--output-dir', '@OUTDIR@', '--roff', '@INPUT@'],
install: true, install_dir: join_paths(get_option('mandir'),'man8'))
endif

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option('systemd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', option('systemd', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
description :'enable systemd support') description :'enable systemd support')
option('man', type : 'feature', value : 'auto',
description : 'build manpage with ronn')