Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] nmh.man: reorganize the command listing

[Anthony J. Bentley]

Lyndon Nerenberg writes:
> 
> On 2012-10-16, at 6:21 AM, Paul Fox wrote:
> 
> > attached.  thank you.  but i'm also very happy to do the editing, if
> > you can provide an example or template to start from.
> 
> When I updated the manpages for the $PAGER changes I noticed a few things abo
> ut how the manpages are put together that need updating (such as replacing mo
> st of the .RS/.RE usage with .TP), so what's there now isn't a good example t
> o start from.  I'll do your page first and mail it back, and you can use that
>  as the template moving forward.
> 
> So I guess this is also a heads-up to everyone that there will be an update t
> o most or all of the manpage source files in a couple of days.

It would be great if the manpage rendering could be tested with mandoc:
http://mdocml.bsd.lv

This is the default manpage rendering program for OpenBSD, NetBSD, Minix, and
DragonFly BSD. It also has a lint mode useful for checking syntax. Right now
the nmh manpages leave something to be desired from a syntax perspective.