Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:26:56 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nroff -mandoc | more no longer works Message-ID: <20110814212656.GA38073@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4E482860.5070102@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108141627130.63057@fledge.watson.org> <4E481D29.8020600@freebsd.org> <4E482860.5070102@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:56:16PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> The proper way to do this atm is 'man ./foo.1'. I had the same set of
> commands under the fingers as well, but doing it the new way has many
> benefits. Not the least of which is that you will see the page the same
> way man will render it when it's installed.
>
In ancient times, the UNIX philosphy was to have small
programs that one could chain together via a pipe. I've
had the following alias in my .cshrc for well over ar
decade:
alias doc 'cat \!* | eqn | tbl | nroff -mdoc | more'
Now, when I'm working on a manpage in my local projects,
I get the wonderfully useful
doc mkpic.1
MKPIC(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MKPIC(1)
ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
ESC[1mmkpic ESC[22m-- construct a contour image in MIFF image format
ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
ESC[1mmkpic ESC[22m[ESC[1m-aBbcefilsvESC[22m] [ESC[1m-C ESC[4mESC[22mnumESC[24m] [ESC[1m-d ESC[4mESC[22mdenESC[24m] [ESC[1m-F ESC[4mESC[22m{v|h}ESC[24m] [
ESC[1m-G ESC[4mESC[22mCLxRLESC[24m] [ESC[1m-g ESC[4mESC[22mR,G,BESC[24m]
[ESC[1m-L ESC[4mESC[22mlvalESC[24m] [ESC[1m-M ESC[4mESC[22mmaxESC[24m] [ESC[1m-m ESC[4mESC[22mminESC[24m] [ESC[1m-n ESC[4mESC[22mcolorsESC[24m] [ESC[1m-O ESC[4mESC[22mnameESC[24m] [ESC[1m-o ESC[4mESC[22mnameESC[24m]
[ESC[1m-R ESC[4mESC[22mR,G,BESC[24m] [ESC[1m-r ESC[4mESC[22mCOLxROW
ESC[24m] [ESC[1m-S ESC[4mESC[22mscaleESC[24m] [ESC[1m-T ESC[4mESC[22mmapESC[24m] [ESC[1m-t ESC[4mESC[22mCOLxROW+COFF+ROFFESC[24m]
ESC[4mfileESC[0m
ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
The purpose of ESC[1mmkpic ESC[22mis to produce a pixelized contour of a 2D
nroff needs to be fixed.
--
Steve
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