Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 08:45:47 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> To: Nicola Vitale <nivit@libero.it> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, sheldonh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about mdoc formatting Message-ID: <20000524084547.A16277@mppsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005241452380.541-100000@numeria.libero.it>; from nivit@libero.it on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:11:46PM %2B0200 References: <20000523093303.A11021@mppsystems.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005241452380.541-100000@numeria.libero.it>
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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:11:46PM +0200, Nicola Vitale wrote: > > > > [Mark Ovens, 21/05/00] > > > > How do you force a newline in mdoc? > > > [Nicola Vitale, 23/05/00] > > > .br > > [Mike Pritchard, 23/05/00] > > No, don't use *roff formatting directives directly within -mdoc > > style man pages. > > I didn't know. :-( No big deal. Better that you asked for advice first, right? > Relaunching: > > .It Ev DEF_BUILDER_DIR > If set, is used as the path of the build directory instead of > .Pa /usr/src/sys/compile > It can be overriden by the > .Bk -words > Fl d Ar destdir > .Ek > option. > > Is it an effective solution? Ooooh....this is only somewhat documented (it is in mdoc.samples, but not mdoc(7) (Sheldon, wanna tackle this one? If not, I will). I've never actually seen those macros used anywhere, so I'm not sure if they work :-(. From the documentation, .Bk/.Ek sound like what you want. If they don't work for you, why don't you send me the mdoc source of the man page you are working on? Then I'll take a look and see if I can figure out a work-around? -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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