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Date:      Sat, 12 May 2018 01:06:55 +0800
From:      Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdport@gmail.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r333494 - head/share/man/man7
Message-ID:  <CAOfEmZg485aqHL=Yu1fNqcQ9FhZqN5JnEmrn48_H3cp5JEVnoA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201805111659.w4BGxTAC076331@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Sat, May 12, 2018, 12:59 AM Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
> > <freebsd@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> > >> @@ -67,7 +72,8 @@ Changes are first committed to CURRENT and then
> usuall
> > >>  to STABLE.
> > >>  Every few years the CURRENT branch is renamed to STABLE, and a new
> > >>  CURRENT is branched, with an incremented major version number.
> > >> -Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with consecutive
> minor numbers.
> > >> +Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with consecutive
> minor
> > >> +numbers.
> > >
> > > Proper place to line break long lines is at conjuncatives such
> > > as the "and" above, yeilding:
> >
> > What?  Are you just inventing these rules out of blue sky?  What
> > possible reason is there to do as you have proposed?
>
> Well known and established man page style rules, documented someplace,
> which I can not seem to locate right now.
>

Could you please find that if possible and share with us?
Personally I'm about to rewrite some man page and that would be useful in
my case!

>
> > Conrad
>
> --
> Rod Grimes
> rgrimes@freebsd.org
>
>



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