From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Sep 24 12:47: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B61937B424; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 12:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.255.97.241]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000924194659.CZCD13676.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:46:59 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8OJl1o01409; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:47:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:47:00 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Francisco Reyes Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to change man pages? Message-ID: <20000924204700.C255@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from lists@reyes.somos.net on Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 01:40:40PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to -doc] On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 01:40:40PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I would like to do some work on a couple of man pages. Good man :) > From what I read this is not part of the Doc project. Oh yes they are > Are man pages submited on send-pr? Yes > Any tutotials/programs recommended to work on man pages? ``man mdoc.samples'' is what I use. > I looked at /usr/share/man and found the pages, but after decompressing > the .gz file I don't know what format the files are on mdoc (a macro package for nroff(1)) > and if there is an editor for such format. > vi(1), or emacs(1) which has an [nt]roff mode which understands the macros (and has colour syntax highlighting which may help). > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message