Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:15:54 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Justin W. Pauler" <jwpauler@jwpages.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mdoc Message-ID: <20010116181554.A67837@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <01011609563201.98287@wks01.drnet.fais.net>; from jwpauler@jwpages.com on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:56:32AM -0600 References: <01011609563201.98287@wks01.drnet.fais.net>
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:56:32AM -0600, Justin W. Pauler wrote: > I've noticed alot of committs over the last hours of mdoc stuff, like man -> > mdoc and such. Can someone explain what mdoc is and what is happening to the > man pages? > ``mdoc'' is the *roff macro package used for writing *BSD manuals; see mdoc(7) manpage for details. The new release of mdoc(7) macro package will soon be released. Some manpages require (minor) fixing in order to be properly displayed with the new mdoc(7) and/or contained minor formatting bugs that (now) detected by mdoc(7). There is also another (less powerful) macro package called man(7). The ``man(7) -> mdoc(7)'' commits convert manpages from one format to another. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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