Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 22:39:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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: <199908030239.WAA02842@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990803113759.J62948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199908010038.KAA16506@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199908011141.GAA02125@mpp.pro-ns.net> <19990803113759.J62948@freebie.lemis.com>
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<<On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:37:59 +0930, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> said: >> Arghhhh! Man pages should never use direct *roff command for >> formatting. > Why not? Because our forefathers did it that way? Because the -mdoc package was written specifically to be as close to a proper markup package as possible -- unlike every other macro package for [nt]roff I've ever seen. Should we some day want to translate our manual pages into DocBook, for example, that future docmeister will not thank you for having embedded even more obscure, undocumented relics of that 1970s-era text formatter to be manually translated. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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