On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:10:00PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > > > What is the governing standard for Debian man pages, and what does it > > say about the ‘TH’ command? > > I don't believe we have any standard other than "you should have one" and > some guidelines about translations.
This is just my own personal use of .TH in all my projects, using sbuild as an example: .TH SCHROOT 1 "@RELEASE_DATE@" "Version @VERSION@" "Debian sbuild" where @RELEASE_DATE@ is the date of the release, which gets substituted in by autoconf's configure script (schroot.1.in -> schroot.1). Downside: an additional processing step. Advantage: always up to date with no manual editing required. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
