From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 29 15: 2:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E0F37B446; Wed, 29 May 2002 15:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b137.otenet.gr [212.205.244.145]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4TM1m0j008742; Thu, 30 May 2002 01:01:49 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4TM1lQb067814; Thu, 30 May 2002 01:01:47 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4TM1kwr067813; Thu, 30 May 2002 01:01:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 01:01:45 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tom Rhodes Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (man page || manpage) => manual page Message-ID: <20020529220144.GA67628@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020529214746.GA67346@hades.hell.gr> <20020529175729.23b01633.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020529175729.23b01633.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-05-29 17:57 -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2002 00:47:47 +0300 > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > When &man.xxx.y; references are being made I prefer the style that > > Jeroen suggested to me a long time ago. Instead of writing: > > > > "see the foo(n) manpage" > > > > You can simply use "see foo(n)", since it should be apparent that this > > is a reference to a manual page. Repeating in every such place that > > it "is a manual page" is a bit of an overkill. > > My point here was NOT to reword things, so that we may be nicer to > the translators... And then reword them later, but try to get > all instances at the same time... I feel smacking them all right > now would be best, and then perhaps reword things later. The translators are going to change the translation to get rid of the ``manpage'' or ``man page'' stuff anyway. I don't really feel like supporting either one-step or two-step changes. You can do whatever you feel more comfortable with, or perhaps wait for someone else to comment on that too :) - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message