lwv27@CAS.BITNET (08/31/90)
Does anyone know of a tool to assist in writing man pages? What I would like would perhaps be some sort of curses based program (or sunview) which would display all the various sections of the manual page by a heading, allowing input. Then, when the user wanted to exit, all the appropriate macros would be generated. I could also foresee the program being able to reedit the file, hopefully able to handle the case where, for whatever reason, the input format might not be quite correct. The user would be able to move things around the way that they wanted and then rewrite the file, getting a valid document as a result. I would find this very useful. I know that I could learn the intimate details of nroff and the man macro package, but very seldom do I use it - I use either plain text, an internal text formatting package, or FrameMaker so nroff is not even a second language of preference. But it would be nice to be able to generate man macro based documents on occasion. -- Larry W. Virden Business: UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 Proline: lvirden@pro-tcc.cts.com America Online: lvirden CIS: [75046,606]