Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 28 May 2009 17:39:47 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Zachary Loafman <zml@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r192908 - in head: share/man/man9 sys/conf sys/kern sys/sys
Message-ID:  <86tz35qlrw.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0905271005t7f57f9b9h3d0721bbb1fbedc2@mail.gmail.com> (Ben Kaduk's message of "Wed, 27 May 2009 13:05:44 -0400")
References:  <200905271636.n4RGasNe003922@svn.freebsd.org> <47d0403c0905271005t7f57f9b9h3d0721bbb1fbedc2@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.)

That's not the reason - the reason is that it makes diffs easier to
read, which in turn makes it easier for our translators to keep the
translated man pages in sync.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86tz35qlrw.fsf>