Using groff

[Beech Rintoul]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 18:42, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 December 2006 at 18:04:26 -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> > I need to write a man page for a port I just adopted. I have absolutely
> > no experience dealing with man pages or groff. Would one of you gurus
> > point me at a good tutorial. The man page for groff is pretty
> > overwhelming. I googled, but didn't find much that wasn't in the man
> > page. Is there a tutorial specific to man pages? I can copy the style
> > from other pages, but I have no clue where to begin.
>
> RTFM :-)  In this case, the man page to read is mdoc(7).  It contains
> a fair amount of information not only on the syntax needed, but also
> the sometimes idiosyncratic structure (for example, a section entitled
> AUTHORS even if there's only one author).
>
> If you forget the name of the man page, man man.  It's mentioned in
> the SEE ALSO section at the bottom.
>
> Greg

Thanks Greg, looks like I have some homework to do. :-)
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