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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: man to html conversion question
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On 2003-05-14 01:08, Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> wrote:
>* John <jwd@bsdwins.com> [2003-05-13 21:04]:
>>
>> The manpage converted to html via:  groff -man -Thtml
>
> With a liberal sprinkling of null content .Bd + .Ed pairings
> I was able to get the section headers to behave, but there
> are still some minor glitches with lists.

> --- apcpwr.8    Tue May 13 20:37:11 2003
> +++ NEWapcpwr.8 Wed May 14 00:56:28 2003
> @@ -18,46 +18,60 @@
>  .Nm
>  .Op Fl f
>  .Ar reboot outletname
> +.Bd -literal
> +.Ed
>  .Sh DESCRIPTION
>  The

Please, don't.  First of all try to use -mandoc and not -man.  The
manpages of FreeBSD don't use the -man macro package for formatting.

- Giorgos