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 Message 8152 
 Mortar M. to Grant Weasner 
 Making a Man Page Out of You 
 04 Jun 25 13:47:50 
 
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  Re: text reformating
  By: Grant Weasner to Kai Richter on Wed Jun 04 2025 10:47:15

 > I looked at man man, but I wasn't sure what I was looking for. Lots of
 > references to groff within man man.

Groff and other *off varients are mark-up languages that Man pages are made
of. There are some good videos on YT about how these are created.
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