From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 24 4:26: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from columbus.cris.net (columbus.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4187837B99A for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 04:25:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phantom@ark.cris.net) Received: from ark.cris.net (root@ark.cris.net [212.110.128.68]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA48060; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:25:23 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by ark.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA03519; Wed, 24 May 2000 14:25:42 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from phantom) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:25:42 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Nicola Vitale Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: <20000524142542.A3244@ark.cris.net> References: <20000523171530.C99582@ark.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from nivit@libero.it on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:27:01AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi, On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:27:01AM +0200, Nicola Vitale wrote: > > 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. They are using -man macros, not -mdoc. We did not convert them to -mdoc format because they're vendor supplied (located in contrib/). Please read mdoc(7) and man(7) manpages if you want to understand difference between them. PS: Initial question was related exactly to -mdoc formatting way. -- /* Alexey Zelkin && phantom@cris.net */ /* Tavric National University && phantom@crimea.edu */ /* http://www.ccssu.crimea.ua/~phantom && phantom@FreeBSD.org */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message