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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 14:01:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Nicola Vitale <nivit@libero.it>
To:        Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org, sheldonh@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about mdoc formatting
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005251011390.277-100000@numeria.libero.it>

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> [Mike Pritchard, 24/05/00]
> > > 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? 

Yes, I'm agree. But it would have been a great deal better
if in -mdoc documentation there was written directly: "Using
troff internal codes along with -mdoc macros is deprecated,
or still better forbidden.", with this last word blinking! :-)

> > .Bk -words
> > Fl d Ar destdir
> > .Ek
> 
> I've never actually seen those macros used anywhere, so I'm not
> sure if they work :-(.

Well, I checked make(1) and it is used there.

> >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?

Are you asking to me or Mark Ovens? I suppose Mark. _My_
English doesn't let me to write any kind of documentation; I
don't even know what I have exactly written in this message!
Indeed! :-)

Ciao
-- 
Nicola Vitale
nivit@libero.it






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