Re: policy summary (new packages without man pages)

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 01:00:11PM +0100, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> 
> > It's tricky to write a decent manpage if you know no nroff.
> 
> You don't have to learn all the nroff macros to write a simple man
> page!  Have a look at the manpage-HOWTO
> (http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html) or man(7) and you
> will see, that you need a very limited set of macros to write man
> pages.  IMHO this can be learned in only one hour (or less) and it is
                                           ^^^^^^^^
> not harder than learning how to write a control file or how to write a
> docbase file or something like this.  And don't forget, that you don't
> have to learn it again for every man page, you can reuse your
> knowledge for every new man page ;-)

pod2man(1) and you can learn it in 1 minute !