Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:29:09 -0800 From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> To: Max Euston <meuston@jmrodgers.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD Hackers'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sentence/Line break question in man pages Message-ID: <199803191929.LAA02619@tnt.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 10:44:05 EST." <01BD5323.F2666700.meuston@jmrodgers.com>
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Max Euston wrote:
>Sorry to be so pedantic, but...
>
>In a manual page, is there a way to specify a sentence break (i.e. 2
>spaces) when you are at the beginning of a line (e.g. after a '.Fl' that is
>on its own line) so that I can get the following output:
I'd try
.Tn FIFO ". "
^^
>P.S. If there is a pointer on how to use the macros, I would be happy to
>read that. I have been doing this by seeing what is currently done and
>assuming what the macros stand for (yes I know what that makes me). 8-)
If you haven't checked out the doc(7) man page, you should.
I haven't seen a groff man page that says anything but "this documents
diffs from unix troff" Is there documentation for troff (pic, refer, etc.)
that ships with FreeBSD or is available somewhere? I have access to
some paper docs for troff, but I'd prefer something on line. I know
about the me and ms macro stuff in /usr/share/doc/usd .
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