How to make "man" pages

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Wed Mar 31 07:26:01 UTC 2010


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On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote:
> Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create "man" pages
> for a port?

If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to
get started is to just copy a man page from the base system and edit it
to taste.  See groff(1) for documentation on the command used to format
man pages from source, and groff_mdoc(7) for details on the groff macro
syntax.  groff+mdoc might be a markup language, but it's nothing at all
like HTML.

If you're after how to install man pages for a port, then look at:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefile-manpages.html

Note that the MANX and other ports Macros only affect the pkg-list and
compressing the man pages /after/ installation. You'll still have to put
in some code to copy your self-written man page into place.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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