Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 22:21:02 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/15234: sh(1) man page have capitalised instance of "sh". Message-ID: <19991207222102.H17630@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <19991207082715.Z976@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:27:15AM -0600 References: <199912070330.TAA19258@freefall.freebsd.org> <19991207053818.B5628@mppsystems.com> <19991207082715.Z976@holly.calldei.com>
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-On [19991207 16:01], Chris Costello (chris@calldei.com) wrote: >On Tue, Dec 07, 1999, Mike Pritchard wrote: >> I don't like lower-case commands being capitalized in the text >> if at all possible. It makes it harder for automated man page >> checking scripts/programs to figure out of the reference is valid. > > It's an ``.Nm'', not an ``.Xr'' That might not be relevant. ;) I am doing some things wrt man and DocBook conversion and wrong usage of .Nm could lead to some interesting twists in the code. =\ I personally prefer the rewording myself. The style may be somewhat less to read, but at least it preserves proper capitalisation. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl] Documentation nutter. *BSD: Technical excellence at its best... The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Atone me to my throes curtail... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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