[Pkg-grass-general] Re: GRASS 5.7 man pages

[Markus Neteler <neteler@itc.it>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:05:43PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 12:28:22PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > - after compilation MAN pages are rendered from the HTML pages
> > 
> 
> AFAIK they are rendered in formatted form, i.e. 'cat' format.
> That's ugly. Man pages must be unformatted, i.e. in source format.

Really?
I thought below *is* the desired source format (teach me if I am wrong,
I am MAN newbie):

cd grass57/
file dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/man/man1/d.rast.1
dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/man/man1/d.rast.1: ASCII troff or preprocessor input text

head -4 dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/man/man1/d.rast.1
.TH d.rast 1 "" "GRASS 5.7.cvs" "Grass User's Manual"
.SH NAME
\fI\fBd.rast\fR\fR  - Displays and overlays raster map layers in the active display frame on the graphics monitor.
.SH SYNOPSIS

Confused,

 Markus