From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 24 7:25:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mppsystems.com (mppsystems.com [208.210.148.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B8F37BC4D; Wed, 24 May 2000 07:25:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mppsystems.com) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mppsystems.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA16642; Wed, 24 May 2000 09:25:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 09:25:09 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: Nicola Vitale , doc@FreeBSD.ORG, sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: undocumented mdoc [was: Question about mdoc formatting] Message-ID: <20000524092509.A16534@mppsystems.com> References: <20000523093303.A11021@mppsystems.com> <20000524084547.A16277@mppsystems.com> <20000524171226.A30609@ark.cris.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000524171226.A30609@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@cris.crimea.ua on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:12:26PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 05:12:26PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > hi, > > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:45:47AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: > > > Ooooh....this is only somewhat documented (it is in mdoc.samples, but > > not mdoc(7) (Sheldon, wanna tackle this one? If not, I will). > > And .Em and other font manipulation macros. :) .Em is documented in both. Do you know of others? Please let me know. Actually, we seem to keep finding inconsistencies between mdoc(7) and mdoc.samples(7). We probably need to do an extensive review and comparison of both documents to see what is missing from one or the other. > > I've never actually seen those macros used anywhere, so I'm not > > sure if they work :-(. > > If they're not working, then they *should* be fixed. Absolutely! And now that I finally have a printed set of original troff documents again, I'll start looking at these kinds of things again :-) -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message