Using groff

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Sun Dec 10 20:33:54 PST 2006


On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 06:04:26PM -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.

I use perlpod for it (perldoc perldoc). But then, I'm simple of mind :-)

Edwin

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