Date: Thu, 7 Mar 96 10:04:17 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers), freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Documenters) Subject: Re: man page hacking Message-ID: <199603070907.KAA16982@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <199603062310.AAA13045@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from "J Wunsch" at Mar 7, 96 12:10 am
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> 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 :-) Where? > 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 That's only part of the story. A large number of man pages are written with the an (-man) macros, and I haven't been able to find any documentation for them either (on any platform, for that matter). FWIW, you can format all man pages with the andoc (-mandoc) macros. andoc decides whether they're in an or doc format, and loads the appropriate macros. Greg
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