From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Sep 24 12:49:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DB937B424 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 12:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.255.97.241]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000924194950.CZLS13676.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:49:50 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8OJnq101462; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:49:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:49:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Francisco Reyes Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change man pages? Message-ID: <20000924204951.D255@parish> References: <20000924204700.C255@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000924204700.C255@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:47:00PM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 08:47:00PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > [moved to -doc] > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 01:40:40PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > I would like to do some work on a couple of man pages. > > Good man :) > > > From what I read this is not part of the Doc project. > > Oh yes they are > [Follow-up to my own reply] I should qualify that statement by adding that we do not touch the manpages for contributed software (/usr/src/contrib), e.g. the GNU stuff. > > Are man pages submited on send-pr? > > Yes > > > Any tutotials/programs recommended to work on man pages? > > ``man mdoc.samples'' is what I use. > > > I looked at /usr/share/man and found the pages, but after decompressing > > the .gz file I don't know what format the files are on > > mdoc (a macro package for nroff(1)) > > > and if there is an editor for such format. > > > > vi(1), or emacs(1) which has an [nt]roff mode which understands the macros > (and has colour syntax highlighting which may help). > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > 4.4 - The number of the Beastie > ________________________________________________________________ > 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark > mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message