Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Try using manedit, it's quite friendly :) gtk/gnome, multi-windowed stuff. > http://wolfpack.twu.net/ManEdit/ > but you better check the syntax of your manpages after ! > i used it to create a manpage for my package. > it would be great to have this software in debian too :)) > (i dont use it

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-14 Thread Shaul Karl
> > Try using manedit, it's quite friendly :) gtk/gnome, multi-windowed stuff. > http://wolfpack.twu.net/ManEdit/ > but you better check the syntax of your manpages after ! > i used it to create a manpage for my package. > it would be great to have this software in debian too :)) > (i dont use it

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-14 Thread JM Bourdaret
Try using manedit, it's quite friendly :) gtk/gnome, multi-windowed stuff. http://wolfpack.twu.net/ManEdit/ but you better check the syntax of your manpages after ! i used it to create a manpage for my package. it would be great to have this software in debian too :)) (i dont use it much, i don't

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-14 Thread JM Bourdaret
Try using manedit, it's quite friendly :) gtk/gnome, multi-windowed stuff. http://wolfpack.twu.net/ManEdit/ but you better check the syntax of your manpages after ! i used it to create a manpage for my package. it would be great to have this software in debian too :)) (i dont use it much, i don't

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-11 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:27:04AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > Hmm... anyone going to package manedit ? > I tried it. It was rather fun to play with. It edits in roff. > > Should I upload it ? IIRC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is maintainer

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-11 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 01:27:04AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > Hmm... anyone going to package manedit ? > I tried it. It was rather fun to play with. It edits in roff. > > Should I upload it ? IIRC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is maintainer

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: Hmm... anyone going to package manedit ? I tried it. It was rather fun to play with. It edits in roff. Should I upload it ? regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Othmar Pasteka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: Hmm... anyone going to package manedit ? I tried it. It was rather fun to play with. It edits in roff. Should I upload it ? regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
Y el jueves 10 de mayo, Eduardo Trapani escribió: > > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? > > Thanks, Eduardo. > My suggestion: Use perldoc, you will write a txt file like this and you will get a pretty manpage with only one comman

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:42:51PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > I would recommend to write them in the POD (Plain Old Documentation) > format which makes it very seasy to write/update a man page. > (see http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html for pointers to documentations). haven't dealt

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Eduardo Trapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? I would recommend to write them in the POD (Plain Old Documentation) format which makes it very seasy to write/update a man page. (see

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:52:30PM -0300, Eduardo Trapani wrote: > What programs should I use to create one? the normal groff and the an macro (on the commandline that's the -man ;)) ... read the manpage howto as a start and also read man 7 man ... so long Othmar

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Falk Hueffner
Eduardo Trapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? Try using help2man to get a good template, and edit it by hand. Falk

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Eduardo Trapani wrote: > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? I usually just edit one directly (in roff). I'm pretty sure dh_make installs a sample. If it doesn't, look at /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/manpage.1.ex There's

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:52:30PM -0300, Eduardo Trapani wrote: > > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? the best, but definitely not the easiest one, is to just get an example page and edit it by hand. there are programs like maned

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Warren Anthony Stramiello
When you use debmake (the first thing you run on the clean source dir, if I'm not mistaken), it will create the debian directory. Check in there for a manpage.1.ex file that serves as a good template for the process. ~Warren

Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Eduardo Trapani
The software I am packaging does not have a man page. What programs should I use to create one? Thanks, Eduardo.

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Luis Arocha -data-
Y el jueves 10 de mayo, Eduardo Trapani escribió: > > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? > > Thanks, Eduardo. > My suggestion: Use perldoc, you will write a txt file like this and you will get a pretty manpage with only one comma

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:42:51PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > I would recommend to write them in the POD (Plain Old Documentation) > format which makes it very seasy to write/update a man page. > (see http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html for pointers to documentations). haven't dealt

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Eduardo Trapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? I would recommend to write them in the POD (Plain Old Documentation) format which makes it very seasy to write/update a man page. (see

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:52:30PM -0300, Eduardo Trapani wrote: > What programs should I use to create one? the normal groff and the an macro (on the commandline that's the -man ;)) ... read the manpage howto as a start and also read man 7 man ... so long Othmar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Falk Hueffner
Eduardo Trapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? Try using help2man to get a good template, and edit it by hand. Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Eduardo Trapani wrote: > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? I usually just edit one directly (in roff). I'm pretty sure dh_make installs a sample. If it doesn't, look at /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/manpage.1.ex There's

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Sami Haahtinen
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:52:30PM -0300, Eduardo Trapani wrote: > > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? the best, but definitely not the easiest one, is to just get an example page and edit it by hand. there are programs like mane

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Warren Anthony Stramiello
When you use debmake (the first thing you run on the clean source dir, if I'm not mistaken), it will create the debian directory. Check in there for a manpage.1.ex file that serves as a good template for the process. ~Warren -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Eduardo Trapani
The software I am packaging does not have a man page. What programs should I use to create one? Thanks, Eduardo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]