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To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>,
	DaleCo Help Desk <daleco@daleco.biz>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Manual title standards (was: man 1 eject)
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From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 06 Nov 2002 10:08:18 -0800
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> It's probably a hell of a maintenance load to patch all those ports
> and keep them updated.  Even for manpages that are part of the base
> system the developers are cautious to avoid committing changes that
> are trivial and will cause conflicts in later imports of the source
> from the vendor's releases :/

I was thinking it would be automatic, during the manpage installation.
Preferably in the mdoc stuff, but maybe in the bsd.*.mk stuff.  Either
way, only the entry name (eg, "EJECT") and manual section number (eg,
"1") would be used; other title junk would be ignored and standard
manual section titles would be used.

(I see that ".Dt" is not the only title macro in use.  The grub manpage
uses a quite-different ".TH"; from another set of macros, I suppose.)

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