Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 18:25:35 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: nik@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org, rnordier@nordier.com, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/disklabel disklabel.8 Message-ID: <199908032225.SAA16506@smtp1.erols.com> In-Reply-To: <19990803083741.B58351@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On 03-Aug-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > [ redirect to doc, add nik to cc: ] > > * Tim Vanderhoek (vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca) [990803 07:13]: >> On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:37:59AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> > > >> > > Arghhhh! Man pages should never use direct *roff command for >> > > formatting. >> > >> > Why not? Because our forefathers did it that way? >> >> Because using strictly mdoc will make it easier to change all the >> manpages to DocBook? > > Now this is interesting. > <snip> > I would like to hear some comments on this because it might truly be the > way to proceed on, but I still have some doubts and blanks about how to > realise a few goals. > > 'gards, DocBook can produce *roff format (to my knowledge), thus I think if we ever went to DocBook it would be to have the manpages in DocBook under /usr/doc, but to have them converted to *roff and installed in /usr/share that way. At least, that is how I thought it would work. Just like the Handbook and (soon to be) FAQ are stored in /usr/doc in DocBook in source form, but are installed in a processed form. > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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