From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 15 1: 7:11 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82F637B400; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:06:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0F96OB20148; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:06:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:06:23 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Sheldon Hearn 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> Mail-Followup-To: Sheldon Hearn , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org References: <20010115104453.B13717@sunbay.com> <35092.979548523@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <35092.979548523@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:48:43AM +0200 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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