Ben Elliston wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 09:07:04PM -0600, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
I am currently working on the documentation for the promised
dejagnu(1) multi-launcher, and would like to try using the -mdoc
macros for dejagnu.1. Groff supports these, but the runtest.1 page
uses the older -man macros. Would using -mdoc for dejagnu.1 be
acceptable? (The -mdoc markup is much cleaner and closer to a
semantic markup.)
I don't have a problem with it, per se, but am concerned about
portability. Are the mdoc macros available on proprietary Unix systems
(that remain!), Open/NetBSD, etc?
I do not know about proprietary Unix systems, but the -mdoc macros were
developed at UCB for BSD and, as far as I know, all of the *BSD manpages
have used them since BSD NET-2 if the man(7) manpage on my system is
correct. Any proprietary Unix that ships BSD components (and the
manpages for those components) would therefore need support for the
-mdoc macros. Since they were released as part of BSD, there are few
reasons any Unix would not have support for them.
-- Jacob
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