Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 04:35:17 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which man macros should I use? Message-ID: <20020417013517.GA28850@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <p05100319b8e23cd44991@[192.168.254.205]> References: <p05100319b8e23cd44991@[192.168.254.205]>
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On 2002-04-16 13:59, Rich Morin wrote:
> This may seem like a dumb question (OK; it IS a dumb question :-), but
> I'm hoping that someone here can give me an authoritative answer:
>
> Which troff macros should I use to format the FreeBSD 4.5 man pages?
>
> I've been using "groff -man", but I'm getting some errors. I tried
> "groff -mdoc", as suggested in mdoc(7), but that gives far MORE errors.
> I tried "groff -mandoc", but it acts about like "groff -man". Wazzup?
If you want plain text output, the following two are equivalent:
nroff -mandoc file.1 | more
groff -mandoc -Tascii file.1 | more
If you want PostScript output, or DVI, or something that is not plain
text, the more general groff -T<format> command is what you need.
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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