Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:47:26 -0700 From: Zachary Loafman <zml@FreeBSD.org> To: Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, dfr@freebsd.org Subject: Review: fail(9) style/grammar (was Re: svn commit: r192908 ...) Message-ID: <20090528014726.GG3704@isilon.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0905271005t7f57f9b9h3d0721bbb1fbedc2@mail.gmail.com> References: <200905271636.n4RGasNe003922@svn.freebsd.org> <47d0403c0905271005t7f57f9b9h3d0721bbb1fbedc2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:05:44AM -0700, Ben Kaduk wrote: > Our man page style says that new sentences should start on new lines. > (Since the '.' character is used for defining macros, and sometimes > the processor can get confused.) Ben - Thanks for the pedantry! I've attached a patch that should address your issues. (Doug, please review as mentor when you get a chance.) This is my first man page, so I apologize for the style violations. I fixed all the new sentence instances I could find, but I left the "e.g." and "i.e." instances untouched. That seems like it would suffer from the same issue, but I left them alone for now. Is there a style(9) equivalent for man pages? I hunted for a bit, but "man -k style" returned only style(9) and style.Makefile(9). -- Zach Loafman | Staff Engineer | Isilon Systems
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