Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 01:01:45 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (man page || manpage) => manual page Message-ID: <20020529220144.GA67628@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020529175729.23b01633.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020529214746.GA67346@hades.hell.gr> <20020529175729.23b01633.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2002-05-29 17:57 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 00:47:47 +0300 > Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > When &man.xxx.y; references are being made I prefer the style that > > Jeroen suggested to me a long time ago. Instead of writing: > > > > "see the foo(n) manpage" > > > > You can simply use "see foo(n)", since it should be apparent that this > > is a reference to a manual page. Repeating in every such place that > > it "is a manual page" is a bit of an overkill. > > My point here was NOT to reword things, so that we may be nicer to > the translators... And then reword them later, but try to get > all instances at the same time... I feel smacking them all right > now would be best, and then perhaps reword things later. The translators are going to change the translation to get rid of the ``manpage'' or ``man page'' stuff anyway. I don't really feel like supporting either one-step or two-step changes. You can do whatever you feel more comfortable with, or perhaps wait for someone else to comment on that too :) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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