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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:47:00 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Francisco Reyes <lists@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to change man pages?
Message-ID:  <20000924204700.C255@parish>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009241337420.2179-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>; from lists@reyes.somos.net on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 01:40:40PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009241337420.2179-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>

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On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 01:40:40PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> I would like to do some work on a couple of man pages.

Good man :)

> From what I read this is not part of the Doc project.

Oh yes they are

> Are man pages submited on send-pr?

Yes

> Any tutotials/programs recommended to work on man pages?

``man mdoc.samples'' is what I use.

> I looked at /usr/share/man and found the pages, but after decompressing
> the .gz file I don't know what format the files are on

mdoc (a macro package for nroff(1))

> and if there is an editor for such format.
> 

vi(1), or emacs(1) which has an [nt]roff mode which understands the macros
(and has colour syntax highlighting which may help).

> 
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