Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:24:04 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: brian.barto@spectrum-health.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to create a man page? Message-ID: <81E714F7-A355-4DB8-B40B-BD13126BDE3E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <B6532FAEDD53D94ABDBFB24C35EF77300A34EFE0@dcmsmsg01.spectrum-health.org> References: <B6532FAEDD53D94ABDBFB24C35EF77300A34EFE0@dcmsmsg01.spectrum-health.org>
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On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:53 AM, brian.barto@spectrum-health.org wrote: > Hi all. I am writing a program with hopes to submit it for > inclusion to the > ports collection. My last step is to include a man page for my > program. Man > pages look to be some sort of markup language. What is the standard > way to > create a man page? Is there some sort of wysiwyg or some other > program that > makes them easy to create? If your program implements the standard --version and --help long options, the misc/help2man port will create an adequate manpage from the information your program provides. Someone who knows NROFF can do a better job writing of the manpage by hand, but it's at least a starting point. -- -Chuck
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