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Date:      Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:28:00 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP] man(1) now uses mandoc
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1uyNJjDgaxAjfaYmaaW=uGg8_U7zBDsKMdTCpj-dZOOSg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411230704070.67982@wonkity.com>
References:  <20141123001834.GB68776@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411230704070.67982@wonkity.com>

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On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>
>  The default renderer on HEAD has been switched to mandoc(1) by default
>> The man(1) command has been instrumented to first test the manpage and
>> fallback
>> on groff if the man page cannot be rendered with mandoc(1).
>>
>> If base is built without groff then man(1) recommands to install groff
>> from
>> packages.
>>
>> makewhatis(1), apropos(1) have not yet been switched to mandoc(1)
>> equivalent.
>>
>
> Thanks and congratulations to all involved!


I've been hoping to see this for at least a decade. Thanks so much for all
of your work on this!.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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