From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 24 23:46:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from praseodumium.btinternet.com (praseodumium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1511B37BDE2; Wed, 24 May 2000 23:46:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [195.99.49.186] (helo=parish.my.domain) by ruthenium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12ueoT-0004GS-00; Wed, 24 May 2000 18:19:21 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01324; Wed, 24 May 2000 18:18:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:18:59 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Mike Pritchard Cc: Nicola Vitale , doc@freebsd.org, sheldonh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: <20000524181859.B232@parish> References: <20000523093303.A11021@mppsystems.com> <20000524084547.A16277@mppsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000524084547.A16277@mppsystems.com>; from mpp@mppsystems.com on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:45:47AM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:45:47AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:11:46PM +0200, Nicola Vitale wrote: > > > > > [Mark Ovens, 21/05/00] > > > > > How do you force a newline in mdoc? > > > > [Nicola Vitale, 23/05/00] > > > > .br > > > [Mike Pritchard, 23/05/00] > > > No, don't use *roff formatting directives directly within -mdoc > > > style man pages. > > > > I didn't know. :-( > > No big deal. Better that you asked for advice first, right? > > > Relaunching: > > > > .It Ev DEF_BUILDER_DIR > > If set, is used as the path of the build directory instead of > > .Pa /usr/src/sys/compile > > It can be overriden by the > > .Bk -words > > Fl d Ar destdir > > .Ek > > option. > > > > Is it an effective solution? > > Ooooh....this is only somewhat documented (it is in mdoc.samples, but > not mdoc(7) (Sheldon, wanna tackle this one? If not, I will). > > I've never actually seen those macros used anywhere, so I'm not > sure if they work :-(. > They do. Thanks. > >From the documentation, .Bk/.Ek sound like what you want. If they > don't work for you, why don't you send me the mdoc source of the man > page you are working on? Then I'll take a look and see if I can figure > out a work-around? > > -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 -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message