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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.text
- Subject: Re: ?roff Man page help sought
- Message-ID: <4077@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 03:58:54 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.113202.14229@cas.org> <1992Dec21.152244.1150@blilly.UUCP>
- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Dec21.152244.1150@blilly.UUCP> lilb@sony.comuserve.com (Bruce Lilly) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.113202.14229@cas.org> lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) wrote:
-
- >> key[, key2, key3] First line of description
- >> possibly continued
- >> to two or more lines.
-
- >>Is there a std macro which would allow me to lay out things in this format?
-
- >If you want tabular layout, the best choice would be to use tbl. That way
- >you can have column headers that are repeated if the table spans across a
- >page boundary.
-
- Lots of man pages use tab settings. Problem is, of course, that they don't
- fill properly. ".TP" is the proper thing to use. Like this:
-
- .TP <indent>
- this is the tag
- this is the rest of the description ...
-
- "indent" is in ens. (I don't have a manual page for man here at present,
- so I perused the macros themselves).
-
- "man 5 man" is usually helpful.
-
- >I suppose you could get the mm macro package's .VL list macro to do want you
- >want, if you really want to do it the hard way.
-
- Trying to use -mm macros in -man is definately the hard way. Especially
- on most non-System V systems where -mm isn't present at all.
- --
- Chris Lewis; clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca; Phone: Canada 613 832-0541
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