> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:29:12 +0100 > From: Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org>
> Seems I was (and the port Makefile) was wrong about it being tbl vut > there aee some big problems with equations e.g. in float.h, math.h. > btw the source manpages *are* installed but (probably due to how > pkg_create handles manpages in USE_GROFF ports) they're tarred up. great to know about eqn: much thanks! having only seen float.h, mandoc did slightly better in one place where it included a sum where the cat file only had <Sigma>. im hopeful i can get the sources good enough for /usr/local/man/posix but if not, in lieu of an option to make man prefer formatted files: CAT=/usr/local/man/posix MAN=/usr/local/share/doc/posix/man mv cat* $CAT mv man* $MAN cat >$CAT/man.conf <<. manpath $CAT manpath $MAN . chmod +x /usr/local/bin/man_posix # if eqn desired for PDF, etc. --- SECTION 0. oh, i forgot, makewhatis skips man0*, so use makewhatis -a --- PATCH MAN. personally i would like to patch man so that it calls make (with a special makefile), so it could be extended to e.g. cat pkg-readmes; w3m index.html; use pkg_info; nroff section 2 of the V7 Unix manual. obviously this wouldnt be so much for base but rather for ports and users wishing to add their own notes to the system manual, to save searching /usr/local/ and writing special help scripts. but first i will see how posix-man-pages and v7man go. --- CC: LIST. p.s. last message i forgot to put the list in, so i resent it to the list. will continue to send to list unless someone says should do otherwise or seems obvious.
