Re: style(9)?

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

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