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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>
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Subject: Re: docs/13144: [PATCH] lots of style patches for -mdoc manpages
In-Reply-To: <199908170901.NAA01991@scorpion.crimea.ua> from "Alexey M. Zelkin" at "Aug 17, 1999 01:01:38 pm"
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> hi,
> 
> > I'm going to try and come up with something this week since I should
> > have some time.  I'm thinking of adding two new macros:
> > 
> > .Pr - ports reference
> > .Ur - URL reference, since we have more and more URL references
> >       showing up in our man pages.
> 
> Probably you can add ".Br" also. Since SEE ALSO section has Book References.
> It will make cross references style more strict.

Books/magazines/articles already have their own macros.  Refer to the
%* macros in mdoc(7).  If there are man pages out there that reference
books/articles without using those macros, then they need to be fixed.

-Mike
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Mike Pritchard
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