[ntp:hackers] NTP manual pages: man and mdoc tags...
James Cloos
cloos at jhcloos.com
Mon Jan 14 22:13:07 UTC 2013
>>>>> "HS" == Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> writes:
HS> I'm not sure why redhat/fedora systems are using MAN tags instead
HS> of MDOC tags as groff certainly has the mdoc package.
HS> Does anybody know of a linux-based distro that does not have MDOC
HS> and only has MAN?
The only alternatives to groff(1) are heirloom troff¹, plan9’s troff²
and mdocml³. The former and the latter certainly ship with mdoc(7)
macros. And the plan9 version should support the mdoc tmac files
from heirloom, given their shared beginnings.
So it shouldn't be a problem.
1] http://heirloom.sf.net
2] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
http://swtch.com/plan9port/
3] http://mdocml.bsd.lv/
-JimC
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