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Date:      Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:20:43 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, 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:  <20020712002043.A93669@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020711191732.GB15253@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:17:32PM %2B0300
References:  <200207111908.g6BJ8VQ8092475@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020711191732.GB15253@sunbay.com>

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On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:17:32PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
[...]
> >   FreeBSD documentation project prefers to use manual pages over man pages,
> >   hence some documents should reflect this.
> >   
> >   Tossed around on: -doc -developers
> >   
> 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.
[...]
> 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:

I'm agree with you.

However, in the documentation "manual page" is preferred to "man page",
have a look to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x4310.html.

As many people from the docproj, i think we need to be coherent, i.e.
trying to use same conventions/name in the same document.

Marc

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