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Re: how to make the man formatting better.



On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 11:28:34AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2002.09.15.0354 +0200]:
> > Most of Debian's man pages are written this way.
> 
> So why does dh_make provide manpage.sgml.ex and even a commented
> docbook-to-man call in debian/rules? The message I extracted from that
> was "Debian really prefers you to use SGML for manpages..."

dh_make has all kinds of weird ideas, and isn't even close to
authoritative ... note that it also provides manpage.1.ex, though.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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