Date: 02 Feb 2003 12:46:51 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: manpage section ordering and mdoc(7) manpage Message-ID: <6qel6qif5w.l6q@localhost.localdomain>
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The mdoc(7) manpage seems to claim to be the FreeBSD standard for manpages (or at least part of the standard). Is it? Should it be? Specifically, is the order of sections specified by the manpage the FreeBSD standard, which, if violated, calls for a doc PR? For instance, should the mdoc(7) manpage have its own "FILES" and "DIAGNOSTICS" sections re-ordered to match it's own rules? Or should the manpage be modified to sound less like a standard? If it IS the standard, should it be modified to no longer require the "IMPLEMENTATION NOTES" and "RETURN VALUES" sections, a "standard" which is seldom followed as reflected in the manpage's own example template? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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