Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:31:11 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: pwn <pwnedomina@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Subject: Re: ascii text format Message-ID: <87k5ax6nxs.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4926D965.8010104@gmail.com> (pwn's message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:09 %2B0000") References: <4926922C.8050702@gmail.com> <200811211539.28898.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <4926D965.8010104@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:09 +0000, pwn <pwnedomina@gmail.com> wrote:
> yes, i want that the text appears displayed such as manpages like, how
> can i accomplish this task?
The manpages are written in groff. More specifically, they are written
in a format that may be formatted by the `mdoc' macros of groff; the set
of groff macros described in the groff_mdoc(7) manpage.
See my other post about using groff and a specially formatted `input
file' to produce text output similar to the manpage look & feel :)
The `mdoc' macro package is just _one_ of the available sets of macros
for formatting text with groff. Check out the groff wiki at
http://www.port.de/cgi-bin/groff/GroffMacroPackages
for information about the standard macro packages included with groff.
The `extras' page at
http://www.port.de/cgi-bin/groff/GroffExtras
has pointers to other, non-standard macro packages. This may be a bit
interesting too.
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