From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 1 8: 4:26 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from nimitz.ca.sandia.gov (nimitz.ca.sandia.gov [146.246.243.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A09B537C3BF; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:04:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by nimitz.ca.sandia.gov (8.10.0.Beta12/8.10.0.Beta12) id e21G3hJ84176; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:03:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003011603.e21G3hJ84176@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1-cvs 10/15/1999 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Brian Feldman , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/dd dd.1 In-Reply-To: <73922.951896978@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> References: <73922.951896978@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Comments: In-reply-to Sheldon Hearn message dated "Wed, 01 Mar 2000 09:49:38 +0200." From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Url: http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_586909074P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:03:43 -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk --==_Exmh_586909074P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:28:46 PST, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > Log: > > After Bruce kindly explained the whole groff "sentence" idea to me, I've > > put the whitespace in the right place. > > We should put something about this in the committers guide. There are > too many bad examples in the source tree (not to mention out there in > the big wide world) to expect new-comers to get this right. Ummm, and for us lowly non-committers, who can only file PRs? :-) Is there anything like style(9) for manpages? From your subsequent commits, it seems to me that we want newlines in the groff source at the ends of sentences, and that having a sentence break in the middle of a line of groff source is bad. Is that right? (Having recently filed a PR for some manpage changes recently, I'm a little more conscious about this than I would have been.) Thanks, Bruce. --==_Exmh_586909074P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: 7ce94r4cgyawhStivnv+2I2GdyAAlvzy iQA/AwUBOL0/X9jKMXFboFLDEQKKBwCg7Q0V8GFqSZTbecHD4D7dWEJh7VQAn0wI NniQi10j/La9qvgZ84QRnGr6 =6r/b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_586909074P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message