From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 24 1:39:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.libero.it (smtp3.libero.it [193.70.192.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11EE137B5B6 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 01:39:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nivit@libero.it) Received: from numeria.libero.it (151.29.251.197) by smtp3.libero.it; 24 May 2000 10:39:43 +0200 Received: from localhost (nivit@localhost) by numeria.libero.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01129; Wed, 24 May 2000 10:27:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nivit@libero.it) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:27:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Nicola Vitale To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting In-Reply-To: <20000523171530.C99582@ark.cris.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > [Mark Ovens, 21/05/00] > > > How do you force a newline in mdoc? > > [Nicola Vitale, 23/05/00] > > .br > [Alexey Zelkin, 23/05/00] > It's breaking mdoc requirements -- don't use direct troff formatting > directives in your mdoc manpages. I didn't know. I thought it was possible, because in some manpages that directive is used (see, for example, troff(1), lam(1), as(1), etc) -- even in original (I think) 4.4BSD ones -- btree(3), etc. I'm sorry for the error. Ciao. -- Nicola Vitale nivit@libero.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message