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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Wednesday 2008-02-06 at 08:33 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
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> > >  I want a GUI to write man pages. Rather, to translate them to 
> > > Spanish, so
> > >  the choice of using "man" is not mine.
> > >
> > >  I'm not willing to learn trof/roff whatever. I wish something like
> > >  openoffice, or at least, LyX.
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> > troff/nroff isn't hard to learn.
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> > The simplest thing to do is just copy the source code
> > from another man page or pages, then cut and replace.
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> I have done that in the past, for small files, but it is tricky for 
> larger ones. I would have thought that after so many thousand years we 
> would have something more... up to the times.

have you read the *roff tutorials?

The old Programmer's Workbench (PWB) Unix manuals
have them, and I believe the version 7 manuals, too.
You want to look in Volume 2.

http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/
http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/trofftut/trofftut.html


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