From owner-freebsd-doc Thu May 25 20: 5:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE71C37B7EE; Thu, 25 May 2000 20:05:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.145.33] (helo=parish.my.domain) by tantalum with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12v1Y0-0006DR-00; Thu, 25 May 2000 18:35:53 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00899; Thu, 25 May 2000 18:35:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:35:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Nicola Vitale Cc: Mike Pritchard , doc@freebsd.org, sheldonh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: <20000525183544.A232@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from nivit@libero.it on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:01:36PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:01:36PM +0200, Nicola Vitale wrote: > > [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! :-) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ...and the -mdoc macro for that is? ;-) > > > > .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 -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message