Re: dar man page and -aa feature

Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 19:54, Denis Corbin wrote:
> 
>>>Now I have to learn man page syntax...
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Well, maybe not. Actually, the source of the manual information is the
>>different man pages which get transformed in HTML from several ad-hoc
>>tools. I guess, it would be much interesting to have HTML as source and
>>have a (portable) process to generate from this the man page info pages
>>or other format...
>>
>>Thus, if you have some ideas of tools to use and of the information
>>stream from source to the different final information format (man page,
>>info page, ...) I'm interested in them.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Denis.
> 
> 
> I am a compleet man page noob, so I have no idea... I will stick to the nroff
> format for now (at least, that is the format of the source files, right?).
> 
> 

Yes it is, man page is the source code.

nroff formatting is not that complicated in fact...
formating is done by line beginning with a dot '.'
then you have different directives
.P for a new paragraph

.RS / .RE increment the text they enclose

.TP <num>
<text>
<description>

provide the <description> for the given <text> (used for options)
description beging indented by <num> characters.

.B bolds the next line.

There is no need to take care of carriage return, this is done
automatically.

Well, there are some similarities with LaTeX and HTML...


Regards,
Denis.

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