Jack Schwartz <[email protected]> writes:
> So my plan is to put dot-command-free, pre-formatted manpages into
> /usr/share/man/catXX.
>
> BTW, this follows the precident of the pkg team, which already does this...
Which is a bad precedent, and I've filed
15358 Issues with IPS man pages
about this (among several other issues).
> Maybe this is much ado about nothing, but please let me know if you have
> any issues with this.
I do: man pages should be consistent across consolidations, and having
them all in the same format (at the moment nroff with -man macros)
allows them to be printed (e.g. converted to postscript if desired)
easily, and with all the proper markup. This is nothing a single
consolidation should be allowed to decide on its own. If OpenSolaris as
a whole would decide to switch to a different input format for manpages,
fine (provided this format provides the same facilities as nroff -man),
using something at individual engineer's or team's whim is not.
Thanks.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
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