Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page?
Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a
syntax reference. Thanks.
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:13:31PM +, David Coe wrote:
Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page?
Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a
syntax reference. Thanks.
man 7 man
There used to be a Man-Page mini-HOWTO, but I can't find it just now.
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On 8 Sep 1999, David Coe wrote:
Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page?
Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a
syntax reference. Thanks.
man troff seems to be complete reference
_ Sep 8, 19:47
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, David Coe wrote:
Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page?
Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a
syntax reference. Thanks.
There are two good sources for information, which you may combine:
- man(7) (the man man page in section
There is some way to use sgml2txt -man, or so the documentation says.
However, last weekend when I was working on a manpage for a program I'm
writing I was unable to get it to work sensibly. Does anybody know how this
is supposed to work? Is there documentation I have not seen?
Quoting David Coe:
Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page?
have a look at /usr/doc/man-db/manpage.example
Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a
syntax reference. Thanks.
I've actually been working on a set of M4 macros that use the
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Bill White wrote:
There is some way to use sgml2txt -man, or so the documentation
says. However, last weekend when I was working on a manpage for a
program I'm writing I was unable to get it to work sensibly. Does
anybody know how this is supposed to work? Is there
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
There used to be a Man-Page mini-HOWTO, but I can't find it just now.
http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh/man_page_howto.html
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Martin Wheeler wrote:
http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh/man_page_howto.html
Whoops. Forget that one.
== (new URL: http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html)
Thanks for the correction, Roland.
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