Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:05:59 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: Mike Makonnen <makonnen@pacbell.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl scripts that need rewiting - Any volunteers? Message-ID: <20020510080559.D49120@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <1021017376.50729.35.camel@kokeb.ambesa.net>; from makonnen@pacbell.net on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:56:16AM -0600 References: <1020951289.50729.22.camel@kokeb.ambesa.net> <200205091341.g49DfujV022666@grimreaper.grondar.org> <1021017376.50729.35.camel@kokeb.ambesa.net>
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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
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