From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 8 18:40:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E030014D15 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ipass.net) Received: from stealth.ipass.net. (ppp-2-220.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.133.220]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA10904 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:39:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.ipass.net. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA62832 for doc@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:40:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:40:55 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Simplest man page source format? Message-ID: <19990908214055.A62660@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message