Hi again, this time I'm writing to the list as Evolution tricked me the first time. On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 00:59 +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: help2man only extracts very little information from your program's help and version string: * The program name * Its version * Its allowed parameters That will do for a simple man page with the usual sections: * NAME * SYNOPSIS * OPTIONS * AUTHOR * COPYRIGHT By specifying an additional text file you can include your own sections between OPTIONS and AUTHOR. This file really is a simple text file with only a few rules: Section names occupy a single line and are put in square brackets, paragraphs are split by a blank line. Like this: ------------------------------8<------------------------------------ [PURPOSE] The purpose of fancyhello is to extend the classic hello world program with extended multimedia features. For the very first time you can enhance the hello world greeting with video, sound and slideshows. Also you can broadcast the performance on the Internet. Besides that the program tries to mimic several cultural greeting habits in a most accurate fashion. [KNOWN BUGS] Once you got the program running there's no reliable way to stop it. Some users reported limited success with SIGTERM or SIGKILL but other reports stated that the program has even been able to "survive" kernel panic. ------------------------------8<------------------------------------ Got it? As long as you stick to floating text it is all very easy and you'll never need to use troff commands for formating. (Man pages are special troff documents). But the point is that you still can do if you need to. e.g. if you need to define a bulleted list. Just like this: ------------------------------8<------------------------------------ [ABOUT THE USER-INTERFACE] The user-interface mainly consists of six tabs: .br \h'3' \(bu Create Bank Files .br \h'3' \(bu Import Registrations .br \h'3' \(bu Quick Rename .br \h'3' \(bu Print/Export Setlist .br \h'3' \(bu Keyboard Information .br \h'3' \(bu About ------------------------------8<------------------------------------ Yours sincerely, Dennis Schulmeister -- Dennis Schulmeister - Schifferstr. 1 - 76189 Karlsruhe - Germany Tel: +49 721/5978883 - Mob: +49 152/01994400 - eMail: dennis(a)windows3.de Now moved to the corridor: Hermes! (http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net) Besides that: http://www.denchris.de - http://www.motagator.net/bands/65 <GnuPG KeyIDs: B8382C97, 01AD62DE>