help with man page content

Ken Moffat zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com
Mon Feb 13 23:24:56 UTC 2017


On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 03:19:17PM -0500, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> Hi List;
> 
> I am creating a man page and I want to include the output from the ifconfig
> command. Is there some command I can wrap around all the lines to nullify
> the auto wrapping feature? Something like what is done to highlight text.
> 
> thanks

Long while since I've written a manpage, but perhaps
https://liw.fi/manpages/ has something useful - maybe a new para
(.PP) for the command, possibly with an indent like in the example
there.

Failing that, perhaps start from a pod file with 'C' for inline
code, as at
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/pod2man-a-great-way-to-write-unix-man-pages/

And if none of that helps, do what editors (people, not programs)
have to sometimes do - reword and reformat it ;)

ĸen
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