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Re: couple quick questions



On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 10:50:07AM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:
>  
> > Randolph Chung wrote:
> > > what's the easiest way to write a manpage if i don't want to learn troff? :)
> > 
> > Grab a manpage from a similar utility and fill in your own stuff :-)
> > 
> > Learning troff is not hard, though.  man(7) tells you all you need to know.
> 
>      Is there a manpage template or DTD or something similar for use
> with emacs in nroff mode?
> 

  Maybe you could also look into pod. This is a language that comes with perl
  and produces manpages quite easy. See the pod manual page.

  (pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text)
  
  HTH,

  B.

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B. Warmerdam                                              GNU/Debian Linux
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