Should I use mdoc for user programs?

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Thu Oct 12 18:09:52 UTC 2017


On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:18:28 +0300, Yuri Pankov wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 11:02:49 +0200, Sijmen J. Mulder wrote:
> [...]
> > I noticed that the required .Os macro (man 7 mdoc) outputs "FreeBSD
> > General Commands Manual" which does not seem appropriate.
> 
> It's not about the .Os macro, rather it's man-section-to-name mapping 
> done by the formatter used, i.e. when using mandoc(1), on FreeBSD 
> section 1 man pages would say "FreeBSD General Commands Manual", on 
> illumos exactly the *same* man page would say just "User Commands" (for 
> mandoc this can be customized editing one of the source files currently).

According to "man mdoc", it's easy to redefine .Dt at the beginning
of the document (just like .Dt or Dd).


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