Linda Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sigh. Was hoping that someone who wrote the original man page > format might already have expertise in that area. It's just > "arcana" (obscure knowledge, not necessarily hard to learn or use, > just not widely known). Are you saying that you wrote the original, > but aren't familiar with the even more arcane "tbl" input language > for tables?:
Wget's man-page is not written; the nroff source is generated from the Texinfo documentation in doc/wget.texi. The nice thing about Texinfo is that it uses TeX to produce decently typeset printed manuals. Since ASCII art tends to look rather ugly in printed manuals, it would be preferrable to use a "real" TeX table and an ASCII table from non-TeX (Info, man) output.
