From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 25 5:30:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.libero.it (smtp3.libero.it [193.70.192.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3A937BFF3; Thu, 25 May 2000 05:30:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nivit@libero.it) Received: from numeria.libero.it (151.29.198.159) by smtp3.libero.it; 25 May 2000 14:30:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (nivit@localhost) by numeria.libero.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00304; Thu, 25 May 2000 14:01:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nivit@libero.it) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:01:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Nicola Vitale To: Mike Pritchard Cc: doc@freebsd.org, sheldonh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message