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* The former manpage needed Groff to be properly formatted, this is a
dependancy I want to remove. Support for systems where neither groff
nor mandoc are available is achieved by generating a man(7) manpage,
which will be shipped in the tarballs.
* The mdoc(7) language provides semantic annotations for better
documentation of Unix utilities, contrary to man(7) which provides
mere presentation markup.
* The build system now encodes paths in the manpage according to the
settings passed to ./configure.
Note that some markup used may not be perfectly appropriate. Comments
about this matter, and questions from distro maintainers using manpage
patches are welcome.
Selected reading:
- http://mdocml.bsd.lv general information about mdoc(7)
- http://mdocml.bsd.lv/mdoc.7.html mdoc(7) macros reference
- http://manpages.bsd.lv/ mdoc(7) tutorial
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