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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:48:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/share/examples/mdoc example.3
Message-ID:  <199703192148.NAA15057@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199703192124.IAA06242@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 20, 97 08:24:16 am

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Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> >  Modified:    share/examples/mdoc  example.3
> >  Log:
> >  Update to use the .Rv macro now that I know it exists :-).
> 
> It doesn't seem to be well known :-).  (It was only used once in
> /usr/share/man, in atexit.3.)

I know :-).  It looks like it was added late in the game, along with a 
few other undocumented mdoc macros I discovered while poking around in 
the mdoc macros for some other reason.  It looks like .Rv was never 

The .An macro is the next one it looks like I'll document.  It is
used by 3 man pages :-).

Usage: .An author name

E.g:

.An Mike Pritchard .

Generates:

Mike Pritchard.

.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.ORG .

Gives:

Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.ORG>.

So that all of the "author" info is contained on one macro line.
I kinda like that format, since I was thinking about writing some type
of "author" macro myself to do just that.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.org
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"



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