From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 03:56:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA25886 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 03:56:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (0@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA25881 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 03:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA14150; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 06:57:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA25609; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 06:58:58 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 06:58:58 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Brian J. McGovern" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Constructive criticism (was: bashing everyone for fun and profit) In-Reply-To: <199701290249.VAA04040@spoon.beta.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I guess what I'm getting at is this: There are a lot of us out here who would > write man pages if we knew how to typeset them, those who would write neat Well, for manpages there's `man 7 mdoc' and `man 7 mdoc.samples', but personally, the next time I have to write a large manpage (ie. not very soon I plan) I'm going to try writing it in docbook and auto-converting that to manpage format. http://www.ora.com/davenport/index.html, if you're interested. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk