Date: 10 Sep 1999 22:42:11 -0500 From: Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net> To: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, "'Evren Yurtesen'" <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: man page weirdness! Message-ID: <85aequcdws.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: "Michael W. Akers"'s message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:47:44 -0700" References: <01BEFB9B.7199F390@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
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"Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> writes:
> The original 'man' doc format is 'troff' also called dotted command tag format, think of html but with .xx as a format command instead of <xx> </xx>. Do a man troff for more info.
Yes, so are the current man pages.
I think Mark is Evren is looking for documentation on the man macros. Try
man 7 man
> Mike Akers
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> From: Evren Yurtesen [SMTP:yurtesen@ispro.net.tr]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 1:42 PM
> To: Mark Ovens
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: man page weirdness!
>
> how can I find information about the original man page format?
>
> Evren
>
> Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 07:33:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> > > hello,
> > > I have tried to create a man page using the examples at
> > > /usr/share/examples/mdocs
> > > (or something like that) and I have been successfull !
> > >
> > > But, the problem is the man pages I made are working on FreeBSD but not
> > > on
> > > HPUX or Solaris (these are the only other platforms I could test)
> > >
> > > Is there any standarts on these man pages ? how can I write a man page
> > > which
> > > is compatible with other operating systems' man command?
> > >
> >
> > The FreeBSD manpages are in -mdoc format, not -man (well most of
> > them). A list was posted on -doc recently listing those still in
> > -man format. I've tried viewing FreeBSD manpages on a Sun (so I
> > could print them) and only a few worked as the mdoc macros are
> > different on Suns (SunOS 4.1.3 at least).
> >
> > Have you tried with some of the other tmac macros on HPUX & Solaris,
> > in /usr/share/tmac/, or similar, with nroff(1)?
> >
> > > thanks
> > > Evren Yurtesen
> > > yurtesen@ispro.net.tr
> > >
> > >
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