From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 24 5: 2:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mppsystems.com (mppsystems.com [208.210.148.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C942137BAC6 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 05:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mppsystems.com) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mppsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA15784; Wed, 24 May 2000 07:01:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:01:39 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: Nicola Vitale , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: <20000524070139.A15746@mppsystems.com> References: <20000523171530.C99582@ark.cris.net> <20000524142542.A3244@ark.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000524142542.A3244@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@cris.crimea.ua on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:25:42PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:25:42PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > 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/). Actually, I think there are still a few -mdoc man pages out there that use *roff formatting directives directly. I kill them when I see them, but I am pretty sure that there are a good 1/2 - 1 dozen of them still floating around. Feel free to go hunting :-) -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message