Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 16:48:12 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Kim Buckner <buckner@cs.utk.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Man Pages Message-ID: <90425.944750892@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:34:35 EST." <384FBDFB.19D03C58@cs.utk.edu>
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On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:34:35 EST, Kim Buckner wrote:
> I obviously missed something. I am trying to format the man pages from
> the 3.3 release and
> I don't know what macro package was used.
Different manpages use different packages. You mentioned nroff. If
that's what you're using, I have yet to find a page that couldn't be
formatted with one of ``nroff -mdoc'' and ``nroff -man''.
The decision can be automated with some shell scripting (although this
is sluggish):
page=/path/to/foo.1
if grep -Lq '^\.Nm' ${page}; then
nroff -mdoc ${page}
else
nroff -man ${page}
fi
That should get you going, depending on what you're actually trying to
do. :-)
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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