Am 06.03.2010 um Sa. 06.03.2010 21:26 schrieb Jukka Ruohonen: ISTM that getting the roff formatting to be exactly right is probably >> not worth the (likely substantial) trouble, and then it'd have to be >> maintained too. Maybe a stub page that points to the text file would >> be an adequate compromise? > > Well, I am already in about halfway of the page... > > I haven't experienced major problems with markup (yet). This is probably > because I am trying to "write it out" a little, instead of basically copying > the file like was apparently done in the other BSDs. The content remains the > same, of course. > > It shouldn't be noticeable harder to maintain than a text file. FWIW, > generally manual pages also appear to suffer less from bitrot than random > files. But maybe this is just circular reasoning ;-).
In HTML lingo, I'd say wrap it in <pre> and call it good. No idea what you mean by "write it out"... maybe discuss before you do unneccessary work? - Hubert
