Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:12:52 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Beech Rintoul <freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using groff Message-ID: <20061211034252.GJ34082@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200612101804.47366.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> References: <200612101804.47366.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com>
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--bWEb1MG/o7IKOlQF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 10 December 2006 at 18:04:26 -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > I need to write a man page for a port I just adopted. I have absolutely no > experience dealing with man pages or groff. Would one of you gurus point me > at a good tutorial. The man page for groff is pretty overwhelming. I googled, > but didn't find much that wasn't in the man page. Is there a tutorial > specific to man pages? I can copy the style from other pages, but I have no > clue where to begin. RTFM :-) In this case, the man page to read is mdoc(7). It contains a fair amount of information not only on the syntax needed, but also the sometimes idiosyncratic structure (for example, a section entitled AUTHORS even if there's only one author). If you forget the name of the man page, man man. It's mentioned in the SEE ALSO section at the bottom. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --bWEb1MG/o7IKOlQF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFfNO8IubykFB6QiMRAk5lAKCz6PqgmxT64sjHx5d4uHxuHGfQ1wCfY9y5 0qUv+e6KDhPqOKG1Z1cPFwA= =uMYQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bWEb1MG/o7IKOlQF--
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