> I am considering starting a project which would: > a) define a standard template for man pages in Linux. I know it would > appear that one already exists, but it turns out that what really, really > exists is a good overall description of what should be included in the > man pages (in /usr/doc/HOWTO/Mini/Manpages), but that's leaves room > for ambiguities, and I believe a template would be a very useful addition.
You know, it would be _really_ cool if somebody wrote an emacs macro or perl script that let you just call up an editor for the various sections of a man page, and then have it automatically make the proper nroff manpage. > b) begin the slow, laborious process of writing new manpages where they > don't exist, then start re-formatting existing man pages to a standard > template. Wow. Lots of work, you should talk to the current manpage gurus who maintain man-pages (v1.8). Jim
