man pages

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Jun 8 01:41:51 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 23:34 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 00:24 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > * Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> [2006-06-05 17:56:34 +0300]:

> > > So, I'd be happier if you could "fix" the boldness in commands eg 
> > > .TP
> > > upgrade
> > > 
> > > -->
> > > .TP
> > > \fBupgrade\fR
> > 
> > Well, if you would still like me to change them after you've read my
> > explanation above, I'd be happy to do so.
> 
> Others don't seem to have opinion about this (or at least strong
> opinions)

I've simply somewhat lost the track :)

>  so .. I still personally prefer the commands in bold and
> arguments in normal text.
So do I. AFAIS, this is what most man-pages use.

BTW: Where are we wrt. to man-pages?

Are we ready to remove the translations?
Are we ready to remove the generate man-page auto*magic and the *.sgmls?

Ralf






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