On Nov 15, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
Team,

What do others think of this question?

If all our *nix users would benefit from it, I'm all for (--but I'm not all
too familiar with the syntax of manpages... yet ;-) Is the format generic
enough to be supported by all *nix platforms, or would we have to write
separate ones for Debian / RedHat / OS X etc.)


Downside of course is yet another piece of the package to maintain (albeit
maybe a small one)


Greetz,

Andreas

+1 I'm all about documentation. I don't know if there are multiple formats though.


FWIW, here're a couple of Man Page HowTos:

Nicely written w/ a 'glossary' of formatting code:
http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html

Briefer HowTo:
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/tech_docs/qref/writing_man_pages.html

man man:
http://www.rt.com/man/man.7.html

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