Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:08:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@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: <20010817100855.A50416@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200108161547.f7GFlmW33386@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:47:48AM -0600 References: <7507.997953894@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200108161547.f7GFlmW33386@harmony.village.org>
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On Thursday, 16 August 2001 at 9:47:48 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <7507.997953894@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sheldon Hearn writes: >>> 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. At some point we'll get down to personal preferences, of course. As you know, there's a lot that I don't like about the current layout. > I'd like to see things in alphabetical order, unless there's a real > compelling reason not to. And if there is a reason, it should be > documented. Otherwise, how do you tell the sloppy manual writer(s) > from the clever, but obscure? Agreed. Otherwise we'll end up with another thread like this one. But the documentation should probably be in comments. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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