Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 15:00:08 -0400 From: Patrick Kelsey <kelsey@ieee.org> To: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@freebsd.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improvement to pthread_getspecific(3) Message-ID: <CAD44qMVV4BD2g=ZvF%2BH_wj4Y_ggTtJHqO=36aLC_dtuy_QknUA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1505181437200.22210@multics.mit.edu> References: <CAD44qMW3=axQypv3x=03kLUOraawsUW7Q1SToCwhnvhfcFs%2BQQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1505181403100.22210@multics.mit.edu> <2830799.6adxqfxTR7@ralph.baldwin.cx> <alpine.GSO.1.10.1505181437200.22210@multics.mit.edu>
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On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2015, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > > > > 2. Markup - should I be using .Pq instead of explicit parentheses? > > > > > > We do not have a strong preference for Pq over explicit parentheses, > so I > > > would leave them in. > > > > Ah, I thought we preferred mdoc markup (Pq, Dq, etc.) when possible. > > I don't think there are written style rules on this point, but there is a > large body of existing text using both forms (for Pq in particular), and > we're unlikely to get anywhere close to consolidation. > Based on cursory grep -r | wc on share/man, lines with explicit parens outnumber lines with .Pq by about 4:1 with the delta being about 3.5k lines. That estimate is not perfect, but I did take some pains to exclude counting among lines with explicit parens those with copyright symbols, code examples, lines in comments (such as the license terms), etc. > > For the other quotes (Dq, Sq, etc.) I agree with you --it makes more sense > to care about Dq and Sq than Pq, since the rendering of Pq is unlikely to > change, no matter what output format the mdoc is being compiled to. > > -Ben >
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