On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 01:00:11PM +0100, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > > > It's tricky to write a decent manpage if you know no nroff. > > You don't have to learn all the nroff macros to write a simple man > page! Have a look at the manpage-HOWTO > (http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html) or man(7) and you > will see, that you need a very limited set of macros to write man > pages. IMHO this can be learned in only one hour (or less) and it is ^^^^^^^^ > not harder than learning how to write a control file or how to write a > docbase file or something like this. And don't forget, that you don't > have to learn it again for every man page, you can reuse your > knowledge for every new man page ;-)
pod2man(1) and you can learn it in 1 minute !
