From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 04:33:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851F516A407 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:33:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail4out.barnet.com.au (mail4.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6DA43CAE for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:32:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail4out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DB53A37BAE4; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:33:51 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <457CDFAF00000CE2BF4C36@BarNet> Received: from mail4auth.barnet.com.au (mail4.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.125]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mail4.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB3342250B; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:33:51 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (k7.mavetju.org [10.251.1.18]) by mail4auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F60637BAE0; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:33:51 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 46BDD12E; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:33:51 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:33:51 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Beech Rintoul Message-ID: <20061211043351.GH90162@k7.mavetju> References: <200612101804.47366.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200612101804.47366.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using groff X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:33:54 -0000 On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 06:04:26PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > I need to write a man page for a port I just adopted. I have absolutely no > experience dealing with man pages or groff. Would one of you gurus point me > at a good tutorial. The man page for groff is pretty overwhelming. I googled, > but didn't find much that wasn't in the man page. Is there a tutorial > specific to man pages? I can copy the style from other pages, but I have no > clue where to begin. I use perlpod for it (perldoc perldoc). But then, I'm simple of mind :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/