Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:10:31 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: horikawa@jp.FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tbl support in man Message-ID: <20020507091031.GF26127@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20020507083552.GE26127@sunbay.com> References: <20020502.163459.70459594.imp@village.org> <20020502.203847.07646845.horikawa@attbi.com> <20020502.213036.128335022.imp@village.org> <20020507083552.GE26127@sunbay.com>
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--HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:35:52AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:30:36PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > horikawa-san, > >=20 > > In message: <20020502.203847.07646845.horikawa@attbi.com> > > Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.FreeBSD.org> writes: > > : Existing /usr/bin/man invokes tbl before it calls groff. I think that > > : wi.4 need not be renamed and that bsd.man.mk need not be modified. > > : Putting your new wi.4 as /usr/local/man/man4/foo.4 and invoking "man > > : foo", I could see formatted table as follows: > >=20 > > I think you are right. I found this out by experimentation myself, > > and someone on IRC mentioned it to me as well. I think the only thing > > that I've broken might be some of ru's fixes. > >=20 > This is also documented in the man(1) manpage under the ENVIRONMENT > section, MANROFFSEQ variable description. >=20 Forgot to mention. You can freely use _any_ standard preprocessors you like with your manpages. While tbl(1) is invoked automatically, the rest of preprocessors should be declared using a special "hint" line in a manpage. The hint line is the first line in the manpage, and has the following format: '\" <preprocessors> where <preprocessors> are specified as the -p option argument. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE815oHUkv4P6juNwoRAnofAJ40tLsLX9UWnlu6k+UzyRLL+jsJsQCfRuOs rK+YBdlvxdQZh711xhLfEZc= =vD1x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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