how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread David Coe
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.

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
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. --

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
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

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
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

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Bill White
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?

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Nick Moffitt
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

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
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

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
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 -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6 9PH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
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. -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6