From: Alexis (flexibeast) <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: groff <groff@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: man(7) <-> mdoc(7) (approximate) correspondence table?
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:17:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6fnwcqv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi all,
As someone who's much more familiar with mdoc(7) than man(7), is
there an approximate 'correspondence table' somewhere that gives
at least a rough sense of which man(7) macros to use when, in an
mdoc(7) context, one would use a given mdoc(7) macro? Such a table
might look something like (to use some obvious probable
correspondences):
| mdoc(7) | man(7) | Notes
+---------+--------+-------
| Lk | UR |
| Op | OP |
| Sh | SH |
| Ss | SS |
| ⋮ | ⋮ |
i recognise that there's no bijection in general, and that
specific mappings might differ between projects (e.g. the Linux
man-pages project might use a certain man(7) macro where a
different project uses another), but even a project-specific table
would be helpful to me.
i thought there might be such a table in either groff_man(7) or
groff_man_style(7), but nothing leapt out ....
Alexis.
next reply other threads:[~2024-04-27 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-27 6:17 Alexis [this message]
2024-04-27 8:41 ` man(7) <-> mdoc(7) (approximate) correspondence table? Alejandro Colomar
2024-04-27 9:41 ` Alexis
2024-05-12 23:49 ` Ingo Schwarze
2024-04-27 18:52 ` Lennart Jablonka
2024-04-28 4:46 ` Alexis
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