Hi,

ropers wrote on Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 03:25:58AM +0200:
>> On 2011-09-23, ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>    $ mandoc -Tascii /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/dpb3.1 | less
> mandoc -Tascii /usr/ports/infrastructure/man/man1/dpb.1 | less

As you keep citing that line from the outdated undeadly article,
here is a side note:  Just make that

  mandoc /usr/ports/infrastructure/man/man1/dpb.1 | less

Sane defaults the OpenBSD way implies "when given no options, do the
most common, fundamental thing", which for mandoc clearly is "just read
the manual".  

With groff, by contrast, you need
  nroff -mandoc -Tascii -c /usr/ports/infrastructure/man/man1/dpb.1 | less
or
  groff -mandoc -mtty-char -Tascii -P -c \
    /usr/ports/infrastructure/man/man1/dpb.1 | less
which doesn't even fit on a line, and when tbl(1) or eqn(1) is
involved, it gets worse and you need pipes.

With mandoc, basically, forget about options, except -Tlint and -Ttree
for debugging the manual source code.

Yours,
  Ingo

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