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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


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