Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:04:10 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/grep/doc grep.1 Message-ID: <199911150304.WAA04016@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991112051528.A62006@mppsystems.com> References: <19991111235932.A62263@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <6216.942392728@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991112051528.A62006@mppsystems.com>
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<<On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 05:15:28 -0600, Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> said: > On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:45:28AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The _name_ command/function/utility/gizmo blah blah blah... > instead of: > _Name_ command/func/utility/gizmo blah blah blah. The former is what is universally required in standards documents, where ambiguity is unacceptable. (I attended the standards BOF at LISA last week. The next version of POSIX will take SUSv2 as a base document, and much of the committee's time has been taken up with translating the TOG documents into the IEEE dialect of Standardese.) The latter is what the Official Berkeley manual page style used, which is why we have so many examples of it -- when the manual pages were rewritten to use mdoc(7), all sentences were forcibly capitalized. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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