On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:52:28PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > > + It is not very hard to write a man page. See the <url > > > > + id="http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html"; > > > > + name="Man-Page-HOWTO">, <tt>man(7)</tt>, the examples > > > > + created by <tt>debmake</tt> or <tt>dh_make</tt>, or the > > > > + directory <file>/usr/share/doc/man-db/examples</file>. > > > > > > Oh, and that should be <manref name="man" section="7">. > > > > Again, I'm happy to leave it to a policy editor to fix the markup if > > desired. > > Another reason why requiring SGML patches instead of pure content is > wrong...
I don't think SGML patches are required anywhere. I also tried creating one once, and it's not worth the trouble, especially if your editor is not setup to grok SGML and how to break lines correctly. Can we make a recommendation somewhere visible that people modify and diff against policy.txt.gz instead? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
