From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Oct 29 4:38:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306B637B401 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 04:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust233.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.233] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 15yBgC-00068W-00 for FreeBSD-doc@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:38:13 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15yBg3-0003hV-00 for FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:38:03 +0000 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:38:03 +0000 From: setantae To: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Capitalisation of program names Message-ID: <20011029123803.A14177@rhadamanth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Should a program name be capitalised if it appears at the start of a sentence ? {I've looked through the archives just in case this is a holy war, but searching for program, manpage and capital isn't all that useful} A quick look through /bin shows that these manpages keep the program name in lowercase: realpath chio whilst these uppercase the name if it appears at the start of the sentence: domainname ed hostname mkdir pax pwd rcp sync All other manpages skirt round the issue by saying something like: The rm utility... I'm of the opinion that it should always be lowercased, as .Nm on it's own produces, and I've got patches for most of the above, but I'd like to hear what other members of the project think before I send-pr them. Thanks, Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message