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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:27:52 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status  Report (fwd)
Message-ID:  <p0511173ab95d1b07844d@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020718204239.16080E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020718204239.16080E-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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At 8:45 PM -0400 7/18/02, Robert Watson wrote:
>I've seen many base system developers commit man pages, but few
>commit to the docbook/sgml side of things in the doc project.
>[...] The FreeBSD src developer community is, after all, a
>community of people who write software that frequently ships
>with man pages.  Sure, the nroff markup may not be the best,
>but it's still workable.

In my case, I don't actually "know" nroff.  I just look at
other man pages and copy what they seem to be doing...

On the other hand, I know even less about sgml.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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