Um... what format are Cygwin manpages?

[mwoehlke]

I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see 
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened 
it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in 
troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1 
pages, for instance)... So, is this just "how the C lib manpages are"?

I am not going to submit a "patch" on this mess. If I do anything with 
it, I am going to submit a proper troff document. Given how much work I 
would have to do to fix the existing page, I am much more inclined to 
take my printf.3 from my Linux box and adjust it into consistency with 
Cygwin's printf() instead. I'm willing to clean up the existing manpage, 
but I think the style of the Linux manpage would be an improvement (what 
we have looks like it came from HP-UX or something).

Any opinions?

-- 
Matthew
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