ascii text format

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:53:09 +0000, pwn <pwnedomina at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes, i want that the text appears displayed such as manpages like, how
> can i accomplish this task?

The manpages are written in groff.  More specifically, they are written
in a format that may be formatted by the `mdoc' macros of groff; the set
of groff macros described in the groff_mdoc(7) manpage.

See my other post about using groff and a specially formatted `input
file' to produce text output similar to the manpage look & feel :)

The `mdoc' macro package is just _one_ of the available sets of macros
for formatting text with groff.  Check out the groff wiki at

    http://www.port.de/cgi-bin/groff/GroffMacroPackages

for information about the standard macro packages included with groff.

The `extras' page at

    http://www.port.de/cgi-bin/groff/GroffExtras

has pointers to other, non-standard macro packages.  This may be a bit
interesting too.