From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-07-17T01:52:15+09:00
Subject: man pages for ruby - was 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?

use rdtool:


   ~ > cat sample.rd
   = SYNOPSIS
     sample page
   = BUGS
     many
   = AUTHOR
     me

   ~ > rd2 -r rd/rd2man-lib sample.rd > sample.man

   ~ > env PAGER=cat man ./sample.man
   -(1)                                                                      -(1)



   SYNOPSIS
              sample page

   BUGS
              many

   AUTHOR
              me


-a
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