Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:19:40 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/36350: [PATCH] new mtx_pool.9 man page Message-ID: <20020328121940.GC13351@electricjellyfish.net> In-Reply-To: <20020328094316.GJ13206@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <200203270400.g2R405i68109@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020328094316.GJ13206@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:43:16AM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote: > -On [20020327 05:15], Garrett Rooney (rooneg@electricjellyfish.net) wrote: > > btw, Dima, if you could just let me know what kind of markup errors > > you find, that would be great. i'm fairly new at writing man pages, > > and any tips on things to avoid in the future would be much > > appreciated. > > Hard sentence break for example. > > We break sentences at the commas or other logical position in the sentence > so that, when we next touch/rewrite a manual page, we can easily alter the > flow of the sentences without obfuscating the diffs much. ahh, so that's the reason. i had noticed that being done at the end of sentences, and wondered why, so now it makes much more sense. thanks, -garrett -- garrett rooney Unix was not designed to stop you from rooneg@electricjellyfish.net doing stupid things, because that would http://electricjellyfish.net/ stop you from doing clever things. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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