ti, 2009-01-06 kello 00:10 +0100, Khashayar Naderehvandi kirjoitti: > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/SupplementaryFiles#Man%20Pages > > > Thanks, that's exactly what I needed! > I'm gonna start off with some really basic man page then, just to get > it to the next step.
Excellent! The world needs fewer missing manual pages. Thank you. A word of advice: even though the example on that wiki page has a lot of empty lines and they happen to be in places that don't affect the output much, you should get into the habit of avoiding empty lines, since they often result in several successive empty lines in the output. Paragraph breaks in manual pages are best done with the ".PP" command. A tip: checking the formatting of your manual page, while you write it, is very easy with "man -l foo.1" (where foo.1 is the filename you use). (I tell you this because back when I was young and didn't think of reading the man manpage I thought I had to install the file to /usr/man in order to read it. I was young and stupid.) Once you've written it, please send it also to upstream so that they may include it in future releases. (If the package is in Debian already, you should file a bug with the Debian bug tracking system to have it included in the Debian package, too.) -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
