Subsections are useful in case on name conflicts within a section.
Typically man pages in distributions are using the 'p' subsection.
They are also needed for the man pages of wrapper commands for example.
This test depends on a nonportable option for date(1). I am not sure
that there is a good portable way to do this, so I just directly
included the seconds since epoch that it would have computed. We're
testing scdoc, not testing the local system's date command.
The environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH [0] is standardized and can
be used to produce reproducible output. Distributions like Debian will
set this variable before the build and scdoc should use it (instead of
the current date) for any timestamps within the man pages.
[0]: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/
The groff .TH title/section macro additionally supports extra arguments:
.TH title section [extra1 [extra2 [extra3]]]
Extra2 and Extra3 allow changing the left footer and central header
respectively.
Here we allow the user to specify these fields through an optional
extension to the preamble:
test(8) "LeftFooter"
test(8) "LeftFooter" "CenterHeader"
test(8) "" "CenterHeader"
Damien Tardy-Panis
Raymond E. Pasco
Henrik Riomar
Drew DeVault
Michael Weiss
Richard Bradfield