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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:30:57 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Referencing man pages from ports/
Message-ID:  <20011008113057.G36543@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011008012121.L21516@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:21:21AM -0700
References:  <20011007214038.E21516@windriver.com> <20011008110956.E36543@sunbay.com> <20011008012121.L21516@windriver.com>

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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:21:21AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:09:56AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > There isn't one currently.  I'm open to any suggestions, and am
> > ready to do the implementation part.
> > 
> > We can extend the .Xr macro to support this, or we can roll our
> > own .Pxr, whatever looks better.
> 
>   How do you intend to display .Pxr?  How will it be made clear to the
> user that this might not be installed?  The only thing I can really
> think of is appending "P" or "ports" to the manual section.  So
> 
> .Pxr cvsup 1
> 
>   Would be displayed as cvsup(1-ports) or cvsup(1P) or something.  A
> patch to intro() could then explain this convention.
> 
>   Do you have any other ideas?
> 
Yes.  The call will look like this:

.Pxr cvsup 1 net cvsup

And will be rendered like this:

.Xr cvsup 1
.Pq Pa ports/net/cvsup

Any better suggestions are welcomed.


Cheers,
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