At 2025-02-11T17:13:21+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > If there's consensus in the kernel of moving to man9 docs, I'd be > happy to help with that. I fear that some maintainers may fear man(7) > pages. If you need me to give any talks to explain how to write > man(7) source code, and show that it's easier than it looks like, I > could do that (Günther already suggested me to do so :). Maybe I > should give a talk at Plumbers. Consider me a resource for this purpose as well. I gave a talk on this very subject at DebConf 5 (not a typo, that was 2005),[1] and have some familiarity with the man(7) macro package, its history in various Unices, its groff implementation, and the underlying language of the formatter, troff/nroff, which were developed at the Bell Labs Computing Science Research Center contemporaneously with, and by the same group as, the Unix kernel. Regards, Branden [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20071015000604/http://people.debian.org/~branden/talks/wtfm/
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