Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 14:34:22 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-doc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Software to edit man pages Message-ID: <5609882E.8020807@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <215764167.1293531.1443268140458.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <215764167.1293531.1443268140458.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
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Fehmi Noyan ISI via freebsd-doc wrote: > Hi there, > Is there any program that I can use to edit manual pages? Manual editing seems to be quite painful > Thanks in advance > gmanedit-0.4.2_6 misc/help2man The reference for groff mdoc macros, which are the preferred way of writing manpages for FreeBSD, is the groff_mdoc(7) manpage. From the questions archives If you visit this URL: <http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/writingscripts.html>; you will see links to various scripts. One of them is for creating 'man' pages: <http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#MANED>; You might want to investigate its usefulness for your needs.
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