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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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