Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 14:15:59 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: David Petrou <dpetrou@kinclaith.pdl.cs.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Q] Making man pages... Message-ID: <199711221415.OAA14836@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Nov 1997 23:17:44 EST." <199711220417.UAA10771@hub.freebsd.org>
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> I've recently written some software for FreeBSD and I would like to
> write some man pages for them. How do people make manpages today? Do
> they write in troff directly? I know nothing of troff. Are
> there tools that perhaps convert a subset of TeX to troff?
>
> Do people generally take existing man pages and modify them to create
> new ones, or is there a blank template for new man pages?
>
> I've checked the FAQ and Handbook and came up empty on this topic.
I just started writing, and found the macros that I needed from other
man pages. Writing them directly gives you a lot more control :-)
> Thanks,
> David
>
> P.S.: Please reply to dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu besides the list, as I'm not
> subscribed to these lists.
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