Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:06:23 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/groff/tmac tmac.doc Message-ID: <20010115110623.D13717@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <35092.979548523@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:48:43AM %2B0200 References: <20010115104453.B13717@sunbay.com> <35092.979548523@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:48:43AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:44:53 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > Vt is effectively equivalent to the Ft (it even uses the same font), so > > it is not really of any preference over Ft, just use Ft where you would > > use Vt. > > Even where the type isn't used as a function return type in any of the > code described (or even any of the code)? > As I said, it does not really matter. Any type could theoretically be the return-type of some function. In the SYNOPSIS, though, where you describe external variables, I would use the following construct: .Sh SYNOPSIS .Vt type Va variable ; .Vt type Va variable ; > I'm happy with whatever is decided, so long as our poor developers can > settle on a standard mark-up for variable types. :-) > I don't see the problem with using Vt over Ft for variables, it is just a question of taste. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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