Unless you're interested in learning the intricacies of troff, by far
the easiest way to get started with writing manpages is to use Perl's
POD format, and then convert it to manpage format with pod2man. If
you have Perl installed, see perlpod(1), pod2man(1), Pod::Man(3). You
can probably find lots of examples by looking on the Web, or at your
Perl distribution.
-----ScottG.
scc <fsanta@arrakis.es> writes:
[ ... ]
> If you do find out that there is a document somewhere
> on how to write a man page, then could it include a section for
> Linux beginners too? Or at least examples? And not too many 'see
> also's'?
[ ... ]
>
> >From Ana at FeF, Spain. Secretary and changeover-to-Linux sufferer for most
> of last year!
>
>
> On Saturday 19 May 2001 13:57, you wrote:
> > Hi all developers,
> > I've never written a manpage before, but now it's time to start. What is
> > the best strategy and what tools to use?
> >
> > I feel like this is a dumb question, but I didn't find some useful
> > information about this.
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Karsten
> >
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