From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 21 7:19:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6874F37B400; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 07:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailgw1.be.to (mailgw1.be.to [202.222.162.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E14D43E4A; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 07:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from okazaki@be.to) Received: from mail1.be.to (mail1.be.to [202.222.162.242]) by mailgw1.be.to (8.11.0+3.3W/8.11.0/BETO3.11-20000907025324) with ESMTP id g6LEJfx04445; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:19:41 +0900 (envelope-from okazaki@be.to) Received: from laputa.isola.co.jp (laputa.isola.co.jp [211.133.141.80]) by mail1.be.to (8.9.3+3.2W/BETO.2.1-02010803) with ESMTP id XAA24637; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:19:39 +0900 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 22:54:03 +0900 Message-ID: From: Tetsurou Okazaki To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Paul Richards , Robert Watson , Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: *roff usage (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)) In-Reply-To: <20020720041922.GA92618@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn> <20020720041922.GA92618@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.9.14 (Unchained Melody) Emacs/21.2 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:49:22 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 19 July 2002 at 1:32:13 +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > > On Friday, July 19, 2002 1:18 AM, Robert Watson wrote: > > > >> tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc. If I had to guess, asking for > >> nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as > >> I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't > >> have to install a port to get syntax checking. > > > > I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my > > masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers > > still use it in earnest? > > Yes, I wrote "The Complete FreeBSD" in it, and I'm still using it in It should be listed in http://troff.org/pubs.html, I think. -- Tetsurou To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message