Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:13:07 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Referencing man pages from ports/ Message-ID: <20011008111307.F36543@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20011008110956.E36543@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:09:56AM %2B0300 References: <20011007214038.E21516@windriver.com> <20011008110956.E36543@sunbay.com>
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:09:56AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 09:40:38PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > > Hey Ruslan, > > > > What is the best practice for referencing man pages that are > > installed as ports (gated, pcnfsd) or optional system components > > (Kerberos). Is there another mdoc macro that should be used other > > than .Xr? > > > There isn't one currently. I'm open to any suggestions, and am > ready to do the implementation part. > > We can extend the .Xr macro to support this, or we can roll our > own .Pxr, whatever looks better. > > Please find attached the unfinished thread on this, and reply to > this thread. > Oops, forgot to attach the thread. :-) Actually, there wasn't a real thread on this. There were two emails on the subject. I'll probably try to implement the .Pxr macro today, and will send the patch for review. I'm still not sure should we overload .Xr or introduce .Pxr. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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