From 618981902bbc41835845ebdfde195104464f183d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Schwarze Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:31:37 +0000 Subject: Improve the HISTORY and AUTHORS sections, using information received from Douglas McIlroy in private mail: https://manpages.bsd.lv/history/mcilroy_26_10_2020.txt --- man.7 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'man.7') diff --git a/man.7 b/man.7 index 7349f265..3294e3c4 100644 --- a/man.7 +++ b/man.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.146 2020/10/14 14:22:54 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.7,v 1.147 2020/10/28 15:31:37 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015, 2017-2020 Ingo Schwarze @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 14 2020 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 28 2020 $ .Dt MAN 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -612,21 +612,32 @@ The language first appeared as a macro package for the roff typesetting system in .At v7 . -It was later rewritten by +.Pp +The stand-alone implementation that is part of the +.Xr mandoc 1 +utility first appeared in +.Ox 4.6 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +.An Douglas McIlroy Aq Mt m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu +designed and implemented the original version of these macros, +wrote the original version of this manual page, +and was the first to use them when he edited volume 1 of the +.At v7 +manual pages. +.Pp .An James Clark -as a macro package for groff. +later rewrote the macros for groff. .An Eric S. Raymond Aq Mt esr@thyrsus.com and .An Werner Lemberg Aq Mt wl@gnu.org -wrote the extended +added the extended .Nm -macros for groff in 2007. -The stand-alone implementation that is part of the +macros to groff in 2007. +.Pp +The .Xr mandoc 1 -utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in -.Ox 4.6 . -.Sh AUTHORS -This +program and this .Nm -reference was written by +reference were written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv . -- cgit v1.2.3-56-ge451