From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 15:55:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA11114 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11109 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA12596 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:52:43 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA22276 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:52:43 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id AAA13045 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:10:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603062310.AAA13045@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: man page hacking To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 00:10:56 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603061930.MAA08686@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Mar 6, 96 12:30:38 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Don Yuniskis wrote: > I'm trying to repair some existing and create some new > man pages. But the macros are pretty much alphabet soup! > Can someone point me to a description of those used in man > pages? RTFM :-) j@uriah 227% apropos mdoc mdoc(7) - quick reference guide for the -mdoc macro package mdoc.samples(7) - tutorial sampler for writing manuals with -mdoc -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)