[SOLVED] Manpage, is it really that simple?

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Heyas

After reading a few page about creating man pages, i tried to callup the plain text file with man.
It worked, actual looked even better then after modifications with nroff or groff.

Pages i've read:
http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/creatingman.htm
http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/up.../manpages.html
http://anaturb.net/create_man_p.htm

A first try looks like: /tmp/tstman

.TH rmtf 1 "2012 March 21" "Version 0.5.0" "sea Script Collection"
.SH NAME
rmtf

.SH SYNOPSIS
rmtf [PATH]

.SH DESCRIPTION
ReMove Temp Files recursivly, either from current directory, or in the PATH provided.

.SH AUTHOR
Name:   Simon A. Erat
.br
Email:  erat.simon@gmail.com

And shows up properly when called with:

man /tmp/tstman

I understand the step after, gzip'ing but i 'sort' that part to be old school,where one needed those extra bits saved on the 720kb floppy


This confused me, as i wonder why would one actualy need to pipe or parse them through nroff or groff?
Is this step really required?