From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-07-17T00:04:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Fundamental question

Hal Fulton wrote:
> Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> 
> I can't answer your question. I hope someone can.
> 
>>  "man <rdoc,ri,rbbr>" and  "rdoc <rdoc,ri,rbbr>" does not gave
>>  anything of output on my box.
> 
> 
> This interests me. AFAIK there have never been man pages for any
> Ruby-related tools.
> 
> How does one create man pages anyhow?

It's not hard, but it's not pretty, either. You have to use the 
groff/troff/whatever formatting system, which is ugly, but functional.

Here's a tutorial I googled for:

http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/ups/ReferenceManual/html/manpages.html

I'm sure there are more out there, perhaps some that are even better.

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Jamis Buck
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