On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 04:05:57PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > \fBsource\fP causes apt-get to fetch source packages\&. APT will examine the Whose idea was it to do this \fB \fP stuff? It's a lot better to just use the "an" macros documented in man(7). This provides a simpler language for manpages that is more easily parseable by tools that provide manpage viewers. Demanding a *roff interpreter for every such tool is really not nice. 99% of manpages can be written using the macros documented in man(7) without having to resort to native *roff language. When I wrote the early versions of the apt-get, apt-cache, and sources.list manpages, I used "an" macros exclusively. It's a shame somebody got rid of that. -- G. Branden Robinson | You can have my PGP passphrase when you Debian GNU/Linux | pry it from my cold, dead brain. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Adam Thornton cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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