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Is there any decent GUI(Graphical User Interface) WYSIWYG(What You See is What You Get) editor (on any platform) that can be used for authoring/editing manpages? An app that can export to the troff format would also be fine.
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Microsoft Word is a common example that helps to define a WYSIWYG editor. You have a blank page with some formatting tools that allow you to add and format words, tables, images, and so forth. What you see on the screen is exactly what you see when you print or share the document.
TinyMCE is the most popular WYSIWYG web editing tool and often it is built right into a CMS. In fact, the HUB uses TinyMCE. Check out a demo here to get a sense of the WYSIWYG editing process if you're never done it before. You'll see it's pretty simple for a non-techy person to highlight and manipulate text.
NroffEdit was originally created for writing RFCs, but since they're, like man pages, in troff format, I guess you could use it for that.
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You want ronn.
Ronn builds manuals. It converts simple, human readable textfiles to roff for terminal display, and also to HTML for the web.
It's not WYSIWYG, but it does let you export normal text files. Since nroff doesn't support arbitrarily positioned text that's about as good as it gets.
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