Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:53:23 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using groff Message-ID: <200612101853.50325.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <20061211034252.GJ34082@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200612101804.47366.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> <20061211034252.GJ34082@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--nextPart2979148.6lC046gSn3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 10 December 2006 18:42, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 10 December 2006 at 18:04:26 -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I need to write a man page for a port I just adopted. I have absolutely > > no experience dealing with man pages or groff. Would one of you gurus > > point me at a good tutorial. The man page for groff is pretty > > overwhelming. I googled, but didn't find much that wasn't in the man > > page. Is there a tutorial specific to man pages? I can copy the style > > from other pages, but I have no clue where to begin. > > RTFM :-) In this case, the man page to read is mdoc(7). It contains > a fair amount of information not only on the syntax needed, but also > the sometimes idiosyncratic structure (for example, a section entitled > AUTHORS even if there's only one author). > > If you forget the name of the man page, man man. It's mentioned in > the SEE ALSO section at the bottom. > > Greg Thanks Greg, looks like I have some homework to do. :-) =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise Travel \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart2979148.6lC046gSn3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFfNZOR5sEeCt9j00RAkt3AJ44Y/WUXR3goiQ39S3b0rpX5r07kgCglzCz kZRYXv/DuW518mun8QbPhTo= =En7V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2979148.6lC046gSn3--
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