Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 07:01:39 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.crimea.ua> Cc: Nicola Vitale <nivit@libero.it>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: <20000524070139.A15746@mppsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000524142542.A3244@ark.cris.net>; from phantom@cris.crimea.ua on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:25:42PM %2B0300 References: <20000523171530.C99582@ark.cris.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005241024310.793-100000@numeria.libero.it> <20000524142542.A3244@ark.cris.net>
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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:25:42PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > 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/). Actually, I think there are still a few -mdoc man pages out there that use *roff formatting directives directly. I kill them when I see them, but I am pretty sure that there are a good 1/2 - 1 dozen of them still floating around. Feel free to go hunting :-) -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
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