Re: DejaGnu manpages

Ben Elliston wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 09:07:04PM -0600, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>   
>> I am currently working on the documentation for the promised
>> dejagnu(1) multi-launcher, and would like to try using the -mdoc
>> macros for dejagnu.1.  Groff supports these, but the runtest.1 page
>> uses the older -man macros.  Would using -mdoc for dejagnu.1 be
>> acceptable?  (The -mdoc markup is much cleaner and closer to a
>> semantic markup.)
>>     
>
> I don't have a problem with it, per se, but am concerned about
> portability. Are the mdoc macros available on proprietary Unix systems
> (that remain!), Open/NetBSD, etc?
>   

I do not know about proprietary Unix systems, but the -mdoc macros were 
developed at UCB for BSD and, as far as I know, all of the *BSD manpages 
have used them since BSD NET-2 if the man(7) manpage on my system is 
correct.  Any proprietary Unix that ships BSD components (and the 
manpages for those components) would therefore need support for the 
-mdoc macros.  Since they were released as part of BSD, there are few 
reasons any Unix would not have support for them.


-- Jacob