Subject: Re: how to write man pages
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/12/2002 11:15:03
>Every time I think about writing man pages, I look at mdoc.samples
>and think, that looks *hard*.  Isn't there an easier way?  No smgl and
>dsssl or xslt for man pages?  
>
>I know, if it's hard to read it should be hard to write.  
>
>If mdoc is the way, could someone tell me how widely it's used?  I'm
>part of a project that could use a lot of man pages, and I'd expect
>the sources would wind up getting built on non-NetBSD systems.  
>
>Thanks for any guidance.  

you could do what i usually do.  cut n paste n hack n slash pieces of
other man pages together, with the wording changed, until you get what
you want.

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