From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 17:22:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA23356 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:22:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23213 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 17:21:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id CAA26230 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 02:21:24 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id CAA09341 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 02:21:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id BAA18580 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:45:03 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603080045.BAA18580@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: man page hacking To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 01:45:02 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603070907.KAA16982@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 7, 96 10:04:17 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Greg Lehey wrote: > > RTFM :-) > > Where? > 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). The question was about new man pages, that's why -mdoc. The -man macros are rather limited in their features. That's why the output created by them is called ``people's pages''. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)