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I did something like this once upon a time - I think the formatter it
uses is either nroff or troff. I don't remember which. I also *believe*
Unix systems store them in the unformatted form, which was vaguely like
HTML - even if you don't want it boldfaced or indented there are markers for
section headings and stuff that should be used.

You can "man man" to find some info on formatting man pages.

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Whenever I need to write a manual page, I just look at a "raw"
one and follow the same format. That way, I can create a page
without knowing what I'm doing. :)

Yes, nroff is the formatter. To preview your page, the command
"nroff -man FILENAME" works on most systems.

I also start from a predefined manual page, although more often than
not it turns out to be one that is handy in the man directories and has
a similar structure to what I'm trying to produce (e.g. a table or an
indented list, and decent looking fonts).  There is an nroff manual out
there on the net which goes into more detail on the basic nroff commands.

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