[gentoo-user] Re: writing man pages (gentoo conventions)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-06-03, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> asciidoc, markdown, and reStructuredText can all generate man page
>> format as well as HTML, PDF, and others.  The main benefit of these is
>> that they're also easy to read in their "raw" input format (unlike
>> roff).
>
> I could not find 'restructuretext'; got a resource location?

https://www.google.com/search?q=reStructuredText

> I guess I'm going to have to brush on *roff codes. 'troff' is what I
> used, but it has been a very long time......

The easiest thing to do is to grab the source for an existing man page
and start editing...

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