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doc: use reStructuredText for man and HTML pages

The Makefile now requires the rst2html and rst2man programs. Both can
be found in Debian testing or downloaded from the Docutils homepage:

  http://docutils.sf.net/
  http://docutils.sf.net/sandbox/manpage-writer/

The new HTML and man pages no longer contain huge amounts of
un-wrapping literal blocks, thanks to how snippets of reStructuredText
can easily be included inside other reStructuredText documents.

The HTML pages now have anchors for all sections, including the help
topics in hgrc.1 which were missing from the old HTML pages.

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    To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with
    "path:". These path names must completely match starting at the current
    repository root.

    To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are rooted at
    the current directory; a glob such as "*.c" will only match files in the
    current directory ending with ".c".

    The supported glob syntax extensions are "**" to match any string across
    path separators and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b".

    To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:". Regexp
    pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.

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    To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with
    "path:". These path names must completely match starting at the current
    repository root.

    To use an extended glob, start a name with "glob:". Globs are rooted at
    the current directory; a glob such as "``*.c``" will only match files in the
    current directory ending with ".c".

    The supported glob syntax extensions are "``**``" to match any string across
    path separators and "{a,b}" to mean "a or b".

    To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with "re:". Regexp
    pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.