Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:18:59 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> Cc: Nicola Vitale <nivit@libero.it>, doc@freebsd.org, sheldonh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: <20000524181859.B232@parish> In-Reply-To: <20000524084547.A16277@mppsystems.com>; from mpp@mppsystems.com on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:45:47AM -0500 References: <20000523093303.A11021@mppsystems.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005241452380.541-100000@numeria.libero.it> <20000524084547.A16277@mppsystems.com>
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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:45:47AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:11:46PM +0200, Nicola Vitale wrote:
> > > > > [Mark Ovens, 21/05/00]
> > > > > How do you force a newline in mdoc?
> > > > [Nicola Vitale, 23/05/00]
> > > > .br
> > > [Mike Pritchard, 23/05/00]
> > > No, don't use *roff formatting directives directly within -mdoc
> > > style man pages.
> >
> > I didn't know. :-(
>
> No big deal. Better that you asked for advice first, right?
>
> > Relaunching:
> >
> > .It Ev DEF_BUILDER_DIR
> > If set, is used as the path of the build directory instead of
> > .Pa /usr/src/sys/compile
> > It can be overriden by the
> > .Bk -words
> > Fl d Ar destdir
> > .Ek
> > option.
> >
> > Is it an effective solution?
>
> Ooooh....this is only somewhat documented (it is in mdoc.samples, but
> not mdoc(7) (Sheldon, wanna tackle this one? If not, I will).
>
> I've never actually seen those macros used anywhere, so I'm not
> sure if they work :-(.
>
They do. Thanks.
> >From the documentation, .Bk/.Ek sound like what you want. If they
> don't work for you, why don't you send me the mdoc source of the man
> page you are working on? Then I'll take a look and see if I can figure
> out a work-around?
>
> -Mike
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