Re: Specify man section name at runtime

[Cameron Katri <me@cameronkatri.com>]

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On Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 08:49:19PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
> 
> Cameron Katri wrote on Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 01:49:18PM -0400:
> 
> > I want to add the ability to specify the man section name
> 
> I suspect you are talking about the volume titles (for example,
> "General Commands Manual", "System Calls Manual", etc.), not about
> section names (for example, "SYNOPSIS", "DESCRIPTION", "SEE ALSO", etc.).

Yes.

> > at runtime, instead of at compile time in msec.in.
> 
> Why?
> 
> What is the use case requiring that?

Well this is a very niche use case, but on FreeBSD they patch msec.in to
say "FreeBSD General Commands Manual" etc. which means that when I use
mandoc -T html to generate my website I have to use a different build of
mandoc so that the volume title just says "Miscellaneous Information Manual"
instead of "FreeBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual."

> 
> Yours,
>   Ingo

Thanks for the feedback.

- Cameron Katri

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