Hi Ingo,
> Oh well, but please make sure *first* you yourself understand
> thoroughly what you are talking about. Right now, that doesn't
> seem to be the case, yet. Misleading upstream projects into
> *about* the right direction but subtly mixing the education
> with bad advice is *not* helping
Hi,
i just had a brief look at the way procmail formats its manuals.
That's among the weirdest things i have seen so far with respect
to handling man(7) code - in German, you would say "von hinten
durch die Brust ins Auge". A perfect example to explain how
nobody should ever do such things.
It m
On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Jan Stary wrote:
...
> Well, the upstream of procmail is Philip A. Guenther.
Not really. procmail has been an orphan for about a decade: the cvs
repository was converted to subversion...and then my access stopped
working, Stephen wasn't responding, and I found I had better t
Hi Jan,
Jan Stary wrote on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 05:47:41PM +0200:
> On Jun 29 15:08:12, schwa...@usta.de wrote:
>> Jan Stary wrote on Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 02:28:55PM +0200:
>>> Certain ports require groff because that's what
>>> their manpages are written for.
>> Manuals specifically written for
On Jun 29 15:08:12, schwa...@usta.de wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Jan Stary wrote on Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 02:28:55PM +0200:
>
> > Certain ports require groff because that's what
> > their manpages are written for.
>
> Manuals specifically written for groff (as opposed to for roff in
> general) probably
Ingo Schwarze writes:
[...]
> Also note that the mdoc(7) and man(7) languages are completely
> distinct, they do not have a single common macro. Well, roff(7)
> requests can be used in both, but that's bad style in the first
> place.
>
> So, rewriting man(7) to mdoc(7) usually requires to chang
Hi Jan,
Jan Stary wrote on Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 02:28:55PM +0200:
> Certain ports require groff because that's what
> their manpages are written for.
Manuals specifically written for groff (as opposed to for roff in
general) probably exist, but i don't think that's the majority of
manuals requir
Certain ports require groff because that's what
their manpages are written for. If I understand
it correctly, the original manpages get preformated
with groff, installed into the .../cat/ directotries,
and that's what the user sees eventually.
I haven't found the time yet to look into the internal
