Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:59:40 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: "Rules" in documentation (was: cvs commit: src/bin/pwd pwd.1 src/bin/sh sh.1 src/gnu/usr.bin/man/manpath manpath.man src/lib/libc/db/man mpool.3 src/lib/libc/net getaddrinfo.3 getipnodebyname.3 src/lib/libc/posix1e acl.3 cap.3 cap_get_proc.3 posix1e.3 ...) Message-ID: <20010816125940.A73183@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <7507.997953894@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:24:54AM %2B0200 References: <20010816104302.I49989@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7507.997953894@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:24:54AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:43:02 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > If a man page writer has a particular reason for a specific sequence, > > I don't think other people should go in and change it. > > As both a reader and writer of manual pages, I don't like that. I like > consistency in the SEE ALSO section so that I don't have to think as > much when I scan it for something I suspect might be there. > Yes, "consistency" is another name of mdoc(7), as opposed to man(7). Thank you! Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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