From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 11 12:18:22 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A881537B400; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E121543E3B; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g6BJHW016919; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:17:32 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:17:32 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Tom Rhodes Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop article.sgml ... Message-ID: <20020711191732.GB15253@sunbay.com> References: <200207111908.g6BJ8VQ8092475@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NMuMz9nt05w80d4+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207111908.g6BJ8VQ8092475@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:08:31PM -0700, Tom Rhodes wrote: > trhodes 2002/07/11 12:08:31 PDT >=20 [...] > FreeBSD documentation project prefers to use manual pages over man page= s, > hence some documents should reflect this. > =20 > Tossed around on: -doc -developers > =20 This is against current practice and traditions: man(1): : Man formats and displays the on-line manual pages. This version knows : about the MANPATH and PAGER environment variables, so you can have your : own set(s) of personal man pages and choose whatever program you like = to ^^^^^^^^^ : display the formatted pages. man(7): : NAME : groff_man - groff `man' macros to support generation of man pages ^^^^^^^^^ mdoc(7): : Throughout the UNIX manual pages, a manual entry is simply referred to= as : a man page, regardless of actual length and without sexist intention. ^^^^^^^^ Both can be used interchangeably: /home/ru/1/mdocNG > awk '{ print $1 }' *.manuals | xargs grep 'manual page'= | wc -l 443 /home/ru/1/mdocNG > awk '{ print $1 }' *.manuals | xargs egrep 'man ?page' = | wc -l 368 Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9LdnMUkv4P6juNwoRAgRmAJwKxWfWfvaFDUtRu9Fbngh62HrAqwCdF7n4 ONBGhiXnDi9XlT4fdapEf28= =Re0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message