Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!dave
From: dave@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Dave Stuit)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Where can I get style sheet for producing a UNIX man page
Summary: Why format UNIX man pages in TeX?
Keywords: style sheet man page
Message-ID: <870@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 16 Apr 89 10:53:19 GMT
References: <16344@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: dave@jarthur.UUCP (Dave Stuit)
Followup-To: comp.text
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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In article <16344@oberon.USC.EDU> dwu@girtab.usc.edu (Daniel Wu) writes:
>I think I remember reading that someone had a LaTeX style sheet that
>could produce a UNIX man page, but my recollection is a little hazy.

My question for the net:  Why typeset UNIX man pages in TeX?  UNIX man pages
are formatted in *roff format because (1) nroff is universally available
(and some variation of troff usually is available on systems with the
appropriate output devices), and (2) *roff format allows straight ASCII text
(online man pages) and typeset documents (printed man pages) to be produced
from the same input file.  The whole UNIX online manual facility is built
around *roff-formatted pages.

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