Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 5 Sep 1999 00:07:26 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/share/sgml man-refs.ent
Message-ID:  <19990905000726.A7803@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990904104914.D35349@holly.calldei.com>; from Chris Costello on Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 10:49:14AM -0500
References:  <199909031709.KAA25800@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990904104914.D35349@holly.calldei.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 10:49:14AM -0500, Chris Costello wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > nik         1999/09/03 10:09:02 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     share/sgml           man-refs.ent 
> >   Log:
> >   New entities for make(1), rlogin(1), scp(1), ssh(1), ssh-add(1),
> >   ssh-agent(1), ssh-keygen(1), and telnet(1).  Originally used in the
> >   soon-to-be-added SGML'd committer's guide.
> 
>    Should some/many/all of the <command>make</command> (and
> others you have added to man-refs.ent) be converted to
> &man.make.1; in the handbook?

Without seeing specifics (and my contact lenses are killing me, so I'm
going to keep this short) it depends.

I wouldn't change text like

    . . . to build a new port you must run <command>make</command> . . .

to

    . . . to build a new port you musr run &man.make.1; . . . 

because in that example you are explicitly listing the text of the command
that the user must type in.  Perhaps a better example of the same thing
would be

    . . . to build a port whilst ignoring any errors you must run
    <command>make -i</command> . . .

If that makes sense.  It's quite a subjective thing, and if you can think
of a better way of phrasing it (or making the rule less ambiguous) then
I'm all for it.

N
-- 
 [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
 non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
 the links.
    -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990905000726.A7803>