Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:25:42 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.crimea.ua> To: Nicola Vitale <nivit@libero.it> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: <20000524142542.A3244@ark.cris.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005241024310.793-100000@numeria.libero.it>; from nivit@libero.it on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:27:01AM %2B0200 References: <20000523171530.C99582@ark.cris.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005241024310.793-100000@numeria.libero.it>
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hi, On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:27:01AM +0200, Nicola Vitale wrote: > > It's breaking mdoc requirements -- don't use direct troff formatting > > directives in your mdoc manpages. > > I didn't know. I thought it was possible, because in some > manpages that directive is used (see, for example, > troff(1), lam(1), as(1), etc) -- even in original (I think) > 4.4BSD ones -- btree(3), etc. They are using -man macros, not -mdoc. We did not convert them to -mdoc format because they're vendor supplied (located in contrib/). Please read mdoc(7) and man(7) manpages if you want to understand difference between them. PS: Initial question was related exactly to -mdoc formatting way. -- /* Alexey Zelkin && phantom@cris.net */ /* Tavric National University && phantom@crimea.edu */ /* http://www.ccssu.crimea.ua/~phantom && phantom@FreeBSD.org */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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