[HEADSUP] man(1) now uses mandoc

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Nov 23 14:07:21 UTC 2014


On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> The default renderer on HEAD has been switched to mandoc(1) by default
> The man(1) command has been instrumented to first test the manpage and fallback
> on groff if the man page cannot be rendered with mandoc(1).
>
> If base is built without groff then man(1) recommands to install groff from
> packages.
>
> makewhatis(1), apropos(1) have not yet been switched to mandoc(1) equivalent.

Thanks and congratulations to all involved!


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