Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 09:36:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, rnordier@nordier.com, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8 Message-ID: <19990803093635.A64532@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199908021824.TAA00543@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 07:24:33PM %2B0100 References: <199908011141.GAA02125@mpp.pro-ns.net> <199908021824.TAA00543@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Monday, 2 August 1999 at 19:24:33 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > [.....] >> As for a comment in a follow-up to Bruce's message, if you learn mdoc, >> it is not that illegible. I can write most mdoc man pages from scratch >> off the top of my head. I've converted man pages from the old -man >> package to -mdoc by hand without ever having to refer to the man pages. >> Yes, it is a little clumbsy at times. But having the same text repeated >> twice just for quoting make it twice as likely that someone >> won't correct all of the text when making changes. > > Hmm, sounds like you know a bit about mdoc :-) Do you (or anybody > else reading) know how to make this work ? > > Index: ppp.8 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8,v > retrieving revision 1.184 > diff -u -r1.184 ppp.8 > --- ppp.8 1999/07/29 14:37:26 1.184 > +++ ppp.8 1999/08/02 18:22:49 > @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ > .Fl background | > .Fl ddial | > .Fl direct | > -.Fl dedicated > +.Fl dedicated | > +.Fl interactive > .Oc > .Op Fl alias > .Op Ar system Ns > > 'cos I'm buggered if I can :-( Looks like a bug to me. Not the only one in mdoc. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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