Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> what formats, > >Troff, with the man macros. > >> tools do I need to write > >A text editor (or better still, *the* text editor, ie. Emacs :-) > >> and format a man page? > >groff > >See "man 7 man" for more information on the troff man macros.
Also have a look at /usr/share/doc/man-db/examples/manpage.example for the basic structure. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]