[ashton314]

This is way fancier than my project, which renders markdown (or anything pandoc can read) as a man page:

https://github.com/ashton314/marked-man

[JdeBP]

Note that you can actually get colour and proper italics and boldface out of groff (specifically grotty). They are actually in there in the vanilla tool, but are disabled by overrides on several operating systems.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/italics-in-manuals.html