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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Some Sample Projects for 386BSD
Message-ID: <1993Mar17.001436.12874@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <9303090526.AA07265@fubar.cs.montana.edu> <1nqplq$m11@sax.sax.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 00:14:36 GMT
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In article <1nqplq$m11@sax.sax.de> joerg@sax.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:
>In article <9303090526.AA07265@fubar.cs.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu writes:
>>
>>Howdy all.
>>
>>This is an *unofficial* request for warm bodies.
>>...
>> Also, Bill
>> mentioned that he would like to see all of the man pages converted
>> BACK INTO the old man macros. ...
>
>Sorry, i just don't understand why we should walk back??? Only for
>the gain of some speed? IMHO, mandoc isn't a bad thing, if someone
>feels it's good, he should be even able to convert it into TeX or...
>whatever he/she likes. So why give it up?
Three reasons:
1) Compatability with programs (like Xman) which like to pretty-print
manuals from troff sources (and won't work without them!).
2) To provide templates for other man page writers to insure a common
"look and feel" and indentation, example, table, and format
uniformity between manual pages.
3) To provide easily reformatted documents for printed user manuals
or programming documentation.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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