From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 10 5: 6: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5816337B406 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 05:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4AC5xl49360; Fri, 10 May 2002 08:05:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:05:59 -0400 From: Michael Lucas To: Mike Makonnen Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl scripts that need rewiting - Any volunteers? Message-ID: <20020510080559.D49120@blackhelicopters.org> References: <1020951289.50729.22.camel@kokeb.ambesa.net> <200205091341.g49DfujV022666@grimreaper.grondar.org> <1021017376.50729.35.camel@kokeb.ambesa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1021017376.50729.35.camel@kokeb.ambesa.net>; from makonnen@pacbell.net on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:56:16AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:56:16AM -0600, Mike Makonnen wrote: > The problem with writing man pages is, if you don't do it often enough > you keep having to relearn it every time you do (which is why I wised up > after about the third time or so this happened to me I created a cheat > sheet). What would be cool is if the man pages were somehow integrated > into the FreeBSD Documentation Project. That way I have to remember only > the SGML tags. We discussed the possibility of doing this at the last BSDCon BoF. Other UNIXes (i.e., Sun IIRC) are already doing this, using proprietary tools. Short answer: our tools just aren't there yet, but we're hoping. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.nostarch.com/abs_bsd.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message