MAKEMAN(2ICD)

NAME
makeman - prepare ICD manual page for nroff

SYNOPSIS
makeman section manualname [(login)name]

DESCRIPTION
Makeman is a command that creates a template for nroff and starts an editor.
Thus you can prepare a manual page for the ICD account.
Some fields of the template are automatically filled the first time you start this command.

The argument section is normally a number in range 1 to 5. The argument manualname is the name of the manual page, normally the name of some program or routine, which you want to prepare. The optional argument loginname is used to search for a full user name in the passwd file. If not found, then this name is taken as specified as the author name. If this argument is omitted the current loginname is used to retrieve the full user name.

Makeman starts (default) the vi editor for you, but you can change this default by setting the environment variable EDITOR.
After you have finished the edit session, you can use the command makecat to format your created manual page (with nroff), and to preview the result.
Here are some nroff commands (which can be used):
	.B "text"	Boldface text
	.I "text"	Underline this text
	.br	Force a filling break
	.nf	Disables line filling
		(useful for displays)
	.fi	Enables line filling
	.sp or .PP	Blank line
Notes: A empty line or a line starting with a space forces also a line break. Use never tabs in the nroff file (even when the .nf is used).

AUTHOR
S. de Graaf

FILES
manualname.section    (output file in 'cwd')

SEE ALSO
makecat(2ICD), nroff(1), vi(1)