James wrote:
>
> Pod leaves me with too many choices. Can you narrow it down?
pod (and pod2*) is part of perl. Very likely it is already installed.
man perlpod (or "perldoc pod::perlpod" if the former does not work
on your system).
> eix latex returns too many choices. What is the best one(s) to
Grant Edwards wrote:
> The easiest thing to do is to grab the source for an existing man page
> and start editing...
If you use one of sufficient quality ;-)
Jörg
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On 2015-06-03, James wrote:
> Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> asciidoc, markdown, and reStructuredText can all generate man page
>> format as well as HTML, PDF, and others. The main benefit of these is
>> that they're also easy to read in their "raw" input format (unlike
>> roff).
>
> I
James wrote:
> Joerg Schilling fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:
>
>
> > man -s5 man
>
> man 7 man
If you like to read the original aman -s5 man, look here:
http://schillix.sourceforge.net/man/man5/man.5.html
It contains a cookbook for a typical man page.
> > BTW: Use other (good) man
Am Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:34:13 + (UTC)
schrieb James :
> Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > asciidoc, markdown, and reStructuredText can all generate man page
> > format as well as HTML, PDF, and others. The main benefit of these is
> > that they're also easy to read in their "raw" inpu
Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes:
> asciidoc, markdown, and reStructuredText can all generate man page
> format as well as HTML, PDF, and others. The main benefit of these is
> that they're also easy to read in their "raw" input format (unlike
> roff).
I could not find 'restructuretext'; got a
2015-06-03 9:14 GMT-06:00 Peter Humphrey :
> Isn't there a Gentoo Way too? I can't put my finger on it just now but I think
> I've seen a reference to producing Gentoo docs, including man pages.
>
Portage uses roff[1], so I don't think there is a gentoo specific way.
[1] https://github.com/gentoo/
Joerg Schilling fokus.fraunhofer.de> writes:
> man -s5 man
man 7 man
> BTW: Use other (good) man pages as reference and avoid the BSD doc format
> that was introduced while the AT&T lawsuit was active.
Yea, I learned 'monkey see monkey' do a log time ago, to get along;
got an explicit
On 2015-06-03, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 June 2015 14:24:18 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2015-06-03, Martin Vaeth wrote:
>> > James wrote:
>> >> So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing
>> >> 'man pages' mostly using txt2man.
>> >
>> > If you want to avoid
Martin Vaeth mvath.de> writes:
> > So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing
> > 'man pages' mostly using txt2man.
>
> If you want to avoid learning *roff, there is also e.g. pod from perl
> which gives you simple basic markup functionality and can output in
> man page
On Wednesday 03 June 2015 14:24:18 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-06-03, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> > James wrote:
> >> So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing
> >> 'man pages' mostly using txt2man.
> >
> > If you want to avoid learning *roff, there is also e.g. pod from p
On 2015-06-03, Martin Vaeth wrote:
> James wrote:
>>
>> So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing
>> 'man pages' mostly using txt2man.
>
> If you want to avoid learning *roff, there is also e.g. pod from perl
> which gives you simple basic markup functionality and can ou
Martin Vaeth wrote:
> James wrote:
> >
> > So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing
> > 'man pages' mostly using txt2man.
>
> If you want to avoid learning *roff, there is also e.g. pod from perl
> which gives you simple basic markup functionality and can output in
> m
James wrote:
>
> So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing
> 'man pages' mostly using txt2man.
If you want to avoid learning *roff, there is also e.g. pod from perl
which gives you simple basic markup functionality and can output in
man page format (and other format).
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