Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 22:55:34 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> 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: <19990802225533.A19050@mad> In-Reply-To: <19990803113759.J62948@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:37:59AM %2B0930 References: <199908010038.KAA16506@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199908011141.GAA02125@mpp.pro-ns.net> <19990803113759.J62948@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:37:59AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > Arghhhh! Man pages should never use direct *roff command for > > formatting. > > Why not? Because our forefathers did it that way? Because using strictly mdoc will make it easier to change all the manpages to DocBook? Because using strictly mdoc encourages more consistency? Because not using strictly mdoc makes the manpages even harder to read, particularly for people who haven't spent five years studying how to use naked *roff? > I've taken the .ifs out and replaced them with .Dq's. My own feeling > is that ``'' looks silly in ASCII. I note that mdoc(7) includes Maybe one of the /usr/share/syscons/fonts file should be fixed. :) -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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