John wrote: > Eric writes: > > Is there any tool available to write man pages (with all the standard > > sections) and keep a nicely readable source?
> Just use an existing man page as a template. The page for man itself is > a good choice. > > I am now writing the thing directly in nroff, but the source is looking > > pretty awful. > I find the subset of nroff that man pages use to be pretty simple. Send > men your source and I'll take a look at it if you want. I agree it is pretty simple. It just looks very chaotic. It is hard to maintain a source if it looks like .SH BUGS The programs .B foo and .B bar have several nasty things in common. I will look into yodl, as suggested by Pann McCuaig. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054