James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> writes:

> UNIX admin writes:
>> I'm not necessarily looking to start changing SUNWman documentation,
>> I was merely interested in the tools used internally to produce such
>> typeset material. My goal is to provide quality documentation with my
>> software, and in that respect, Sun's own documentation is the
>> standard to measure against, and reach.
>
> The tools we're currently using, though, are not open, so that's going
> to be a problem.
>
> I would recommend using nroff -man instead.  It's relatively easy to
> use, and there's a wealth of references out there for it.  Try
> googling on "nroff man macros" or just do what generations of man page
> (and web) writers have done: take someone else's man page source, and
> rewrite it as needed.

Potentially a lot of useful documentation here:

http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html

I've seen a lot of [nt]roff docs scattered around the web though.

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