Re: man page standards

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From: Chris Lewis
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:01

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In article <2879@iris.mincom.oz.au> markm@iris.mincom.oz.au (Mark McCafferty) writes:
>Are there any generic standards for the preparation of man pages?
>We are using HP/UX nroff, using the 'an' macros.

"man" macros.  (-man, -mm, -ms are man, mm, ms macros)

>BTW are there any explanations of the 'an' macros?

man 5 man

(I think it's section 5).

Nils is right, there are different "standards", but they haven't diverged
*that* much, and something built for HP's man macros should work just
about anywhere (except possibly V6 ;-).

Taking an existing man page and gutting it is how most people start
out writing them.
-- 
Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
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