Evan Root writes: > Hello Misc, > I tried man 5 man for an explanation of the synopsis section of the man > page and it says there isn't a manual for the file format conventions of > manual pages. Sometimes I have difficulty with the syntax of the synopsis > sections, is there a document I can refer to?
OpenBSD manuals are written in the mdoc macro language. There is a page describing it, in section 7 (not 5). It is mentioned in the "SEE ALSO" section of man(1). man 7 mdoc There is also a man(7) page, describing the older "man" macros, but these are not used for new manuals in OpenBSD. mdoc has the advantage of being a semantic format, unlike the old man language where the commands mostly change only the presentation. -- Anthony J. Bentley
