On 19/04/2014 16:59, KI7MT wrote: Hi Greg, > On 04/19/2014 04:56 AM, Bill Somerville wrote: <snip> >> One of the requirements for a Linux package is a man page for each >> executable distributed. This can be reduced to a single man page that is >> shared by each program (for example wsjtx and jt9 could be written up as >> a single application). So has anyone written a man page for wsjtx? I am >> putting man page generation into the build using asciidoc as a source >> format and don't want to duplicate any effort that has been made elsewhere. > When i was testing AsciiDoc last year, I wrote up several test pages, > but I didn't really know what to add for content. Using AsciiDoc A2X it > was easy to make the actual man page > > --> a2x --doctype manpage --format manpage wsjtx.1.txt Yes I already have CMake doing that part and am working on auto generating man pages that shadow another. > > If we need one for each executable, would should probably take inventory > of all aps and maybe make one Manpage or set of pages for all ? as allot > of it overlaps I agree. I thought, a single man page that covered everything and have other pages shadow that one, so for example for jt9:
file man1/jt9.1: .so man1/wsjtx.1 would be sufficient and I can generate that internally. Then man1/wsjtx.1 can have all the details of everything. This is traditional for linked utilities, grep(1) is a classic example. > > >> 73 >> Bill >> G4WJS. > 73's > Greg, KI7MT 73 Bill G4WJS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
