From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 19 21:19:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A0D37B400; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D6F43E42; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:19:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7ABFD816D4; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:49:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:49:22 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Paul Richards Cc: Robert Watson , Terry Lambert , Julian Elischer , developers@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: *roff usage (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd)) Message-ID: <20020720041922.GA92618@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <036201c22ebb$ba08dbe0$fd00000a@prawn> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 19 July 2002 at 1:32:13 +0100, Paul Richards wrote: > On Friday, July 19, 2002 1:18 AM, Robert Watson wrote: > >> tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc. If I had to guess, asking for >> nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as >> I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't >> have to install a port to get syntax checking. > > I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my > masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers > still use it in earnest? Yes, I wrote "The Complete FreeBSD" in it, and I'm still using it in earnest for a number of things. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message