From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 29 15: 7:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D9D37B403 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 15:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4TM7D4T092651; Wed, 29 May 2002 18:07:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 18:09:14 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: (man page || manpage) => manual page Message-Id: <20020529180914.15ab00ce.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020529220144.GA67628@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020529214746.GA67346@hades.hell.gr> <20020529175729.23b01633.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20020529220144.GA67628@hades.hell.gr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Thu, 30 May 2002 01:01:45 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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 > If you take a neutral step here, then I'll change the instances now, then hack apart the ``see blah(1) for more information'' chapter by chapter... This way I don't really step on anyones toes (those of the -doc list who are working on patches for things). -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.FreeBSD.org -The Power To Serve www.Pittgoth.com -Pittgoth Discussion Portal trhodes@{Pittgoth.com, FreeBSD.org} PGP key by www: http://www.pittgoth.com/~darklogik/darklogik.key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message