On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:54:25AM -0700, Eric Oyen wrote: > well, I am wondering what packages I can use to edit man pages. also, I may
What's your favorite text editor? > have to change how a man page would be laid out because my screen reader (both > in linux and OS X) seem to have trouble handling the change in content when I > navigate through a man page in a terminal session. > > There was a web page converter that would take man pages and convert them to > web content. it required installing a specific package, starting a local web > server and then typing in a URL bar in a web client the command: "man: <man > page here>". I was never entirely able to get that to work on either OS X or > linux. I may have to look for the same package in ports (once I remember its > name). Why in the hell do you need a web browser to edit man pages? Why does the world insist on 7 steps for a no-step process? > > anyway, there are those of us out here willing to do the work, but would > appreciate some preliminary documentation from DEVS as to what goes where. man roff > > -eric > > On Jul 26, 2012, at 10:20 AM, bert wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:43:10PM +0200, Peter Laufenberg wrote: > >>>> The site can look butt-ugly (or wikimedia-bland) but needs a > >>>> semi-official stamp of approval instead of blinking red THIS IS NOT > >>>> AFFILIATED WITH OPENBSD.ORG!!! > >>> > >>> Set up the site, make it work. Approval will come. > >> > >> Other way around. I got better things to do than start a project obsd > maintainers are waiting to see tank. > >> > >> -- p > >> > > > > Or you can provide patches to the official documentation, either in OpenBSD > > itself, or do the universe a favor and document the various softwares out > > there that have little-to-no documentation and see if they're up to snuff. > > > > That said, the attitude you're displaying does no one any favors: nobody's > > here to make you feel special; either you're willing to put in the work > > or you aren't.
