[plug] Writing 'man' pages

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Derek Fountain wrote:

> Is there a simple way to create 'man' pages these days? I mean without having
> to learn tex or docbook or some other horribly complicated page formatting

You just need to know the macros, like '.B' for bold, and '.SH' for
section heading. You can pick it up very quickly by copying from an
existing man page, and maybe referring to man(7) if needed. Its a bit like
writing basic HTML.