From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 8 1:13:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646B137B406; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 01:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id f9889uI46169; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:09:56 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:09:56 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Murray Stokely Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Referencing man pages from ports/ Message-ID: <20011008110956.E36543@sunbay.com> References: <20011007214038.E21516@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011007214038.E21516@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 09:40:38PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 09:40:38PM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > Hey Ruslan, > > What is the best practice for referencing man pages that are > installed as ports (gated, pcnfsd) or optional system components > (Kerberos). Is there another mdoc macro that should be used other > than .Xr? > There isn't one currently. I'm open to any suggestions, and am ready to do the implementation part. We can extend the .Xr macro to support this, or we can roll our own .Pxr, whatever looks better. Please find attached the unfinished thread on this, and reply to this thread. Thanks, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message