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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:49:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 ktr.4
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010312104950.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103121829.NAA61290@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On 12-Mar-01 Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:52:30 -0800 (PST), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
> said:
> 
>> as .Dq Li, machine archs as .Tn, etc.
> 
> .Tn is ``trade name''.  There's nothing special about machine
> architectures that requires this treatment; it's just that all of the
> existing such architectures are trade names.  (I'm not actually
> certain that .Tn should be used for Alpha; IIRC .Tn in typeset output
> generates small-caps, and ``Alpha'' in small-caps would not be
> appropriate.)

Ok.  Hmm, should Alpha be marked up as anything then?  Also, I think i386 is
usually printed with a lowercase i and not a small caps I as well, so it might
not be right for any of our archs.

> -GAWollman 

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