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Date:      Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:40:55 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>
To:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Simplest man page source format?
Message-ID:  <19990908214055.A62660@ipass.net>

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Hi.  I need to write a man page.  I've browsed some of the FreeBSD doc
pages, and I have a question that I couldn't quite find the definitive
answer to.  What is the simplest supported source format for writing man
pages?

Is nroff source format (ala man/man*) the best way to go (hope not), or is
there another more-readable and -writable format such as XML (or SGML?) for
which there might be -to-nroff-source conversion support.

Would appreciate any tips to help stear me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Randall



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