Follow-up Comment #7, bug #58653 (project groff): > I had thought you were linking to the mdoc documentation that comes with BSD.
mandoc is portable software. It is included and used by default in these systems (chronological order by first official use): OpenBSD, NetBSD, Illumos, Void Linux, FreeBSD, Alpine Linux. Official packages exist for Debian, Gentoo, and Fedora, among others; on Fedora, making it the default manual page viewer is an officially supported option. I just used the OpenBSD link out of habit and because it's the most carefully maintained manual page server carrying it. These are quite similar: https://mandoc.bsd.lv/man/mdoc.7.html https://man.bsd.lv/mdoc.7 https://manpages.debian.org/buster/mandoc/mandoc_mdoc.7.en.html https://man.voidlinux.org/man7/mdoc.7 https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mdoc > I do think it is unfortunate that people who use groff > on non-BSD systems are left poorer, without even > a pointer to better documentation. I wouldn't say either is absolutely better, it's mostly the same content in somewhat different style. But your idea of adding pointers to each other in the SEE ALSO sections on both sides sounds good, so people can more easily find both and pick one according to which style they prefer. Let's see whether i can get those two links in on both sides. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58653> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
