From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 11 15:25:21 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 ECB3337B40D; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5736043E31; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:25:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/ - 15/04/02) with ESMTP id g6BMKhtk093801; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:20:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6BMKh0Y093800; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:20:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:20:43 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Tom Rhodes , 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> References: <200207111908.g6BJ8VQ8092475@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020711191732.GB15253@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020711191732.GB15253@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:17:32PM +0300 X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE 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 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