"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@schemamania.org> writes:
> Every time I think about writing man pages, I look at mdoc.samples
> and think, that looks *hard*.

It is trivial. You're just marking up stuff to tell the system stuff
like "this is a cross reference", etc.

> Isn't there an easier way?  No smgl and dsssl or xslt for man pages?  

SGML really is no easier than mdoc in any obvious way.

Just try starting out with a sample man page and hack. It is very simple.

> If mdoc is the way, could someone tell me how widely it's used?

It comes with groff these days, so all the open source unixes have it.

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