Re: What tool to edit man pages?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24.12.2004, at 03:08, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> : > If I'd like to clean up some man pages, what is the tool to use?  
> They are
> : > in a special format, right?
> : There is no 'special' tool for which I know of. I would just use
> : your favourite text editor. There is much work to do on the manpages,
> : such as removing whitespace etc.
> Aren't they in troff/nroff/groff format or something like that?

The format *BSD have their man pages in is called "mdoc" iirc. mdoc(7) 
gives you a good overview about what and how. Using an editor with 
syntax hilighting helps :)

cheers
  simon

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