atom feed26 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersRe: *roff usage (was: Request for sub...
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Robert WatsonJul 11, 2002 10:13 pm 
Robert WatsonJul 14, 2002 9:23 pm 
Robert WatsonJul 18, 2002 7:42 am 
Julian ElischerJul 18, 2002 8:30 am 
Robert WatsonJul 18, 2002 10:17 am 
Terry LambertJul 18, 2002 2:34 pm 
Robert WatsonJul 18, 2002 5:17 pm 
Paul RichardsJul 18, 2002 5:31 pm 
Robert WatsonJul 18, 2002 5:45 pm 
Garance A DrosihnJul 18, 2002 6:27 pm 
Matthew DillonJul 18, 2002 9:29 pm 
Brandon D. ValentineJul 18, 2002 11:43 pm 
John BaldwinJul 19, 2002 6:01 am 
Robert WatsonJul 19, 2002 6:34 am 
Julian ElischerJul 19, 2002 10:54 am 
Robert WatsonJul 19, 2002 11:44 am 
Julian ElischerJul 19, 2002 12:00 pm 
Greg 'groggy' LeheyJul 19, 2002 9:19 pm 
Tetsurou OkazakiJul 21, 2002 6:53 am 
Bob WillcoxJul 21, 2002 7:10 am 
Poul-Henning KampJul 21, 2002 8:41 am 
Greg 'groggy' LeheyJul 21, 2002 5:28 pm 
Chris CostelloJul 21, 2002 6:55 pm 
David SchultzJul 21, 2002 10:32 pm 
Nik ClaytonJul 24, 2002 1:31 pm 
Greg 'groggy' LeheyJul 29, 2002 1:03 am 
Subject:Re: *roff usage (was: Request for submissions: FreeBSD Bi-Monthly Development Status Report (fwd))
From:Tetsurou Okazaki (okaz@FreeBSD.org)
Date:Jul 21, 2002 6:53:41 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers

At Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:49:22 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

On Friday, 19 July 2002 at 1:32:13 +0100, Paul Richards wrote:

On Friday, July 19, 2002 1:18 AM, Robert Watson wrote:

tags, removal of a necessary tag, etc. If I had to guess, asking for nroff/mdoc submissions would result in a slightly higher success rate, as I suspect developers have a bit more experience with it, and also don't have to install a port to get syntax checking.

I wonder how true that is these days. The last time I used nroff was for my masters thesis which was in 1990! Does anyone except man page maintainers still use it in earnest?

Yes, I wrote "The Complete FreeBSD" in it, and I'm still using it in

It should be listed in http://troff.org/pubs.html, I think.

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