Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:03:43 -0800 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/dd dd.1 Message-ID: <200003011603.e21G3hJ84176@nimitz.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: <73922.951896978@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> References: <73922.951896978@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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--==_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
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