Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 12:02:01 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposed addition to the mail section of the handbook Message-ID: <3FCCC589.8040700@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20031202114420.00233193.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <3FCBB04F.7070204@potentialtech.com> <20031201221825.GB10158@jenny.daemon.li> <20031202053708.GC71732@unixpages.org> <20031202090021.GA269@jenny.daemon.li> <20031202112217.23a48871.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20031202162745.GE71732@unixpages.org> <20031202114420.00233193.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:27:45 +0100 > Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote: > >>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:22:17AM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: >> >>>On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:00:21 +0100 >>>Josef El-Rayes <j.el-rayes@daemon.li> wrote: >>> >>>>Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:18:25PM +0100, Josef El-Rayes wrote: >>>> >>>>>>line 72: it is "manpage" not "man page". >>>> >>>>>Actually it is 'manual page'. >>>> >>>>i prefer too, the expression 'manual page', but as >>>>bill used the short form, i just wanted to point out >>>>that o'reilly writes it 'manpage' and not 'man page'. >>>> >>>>(http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/stylesheet.html#M). >>> >>>It always depends on who you talk to too. Some people say man >>>page, some use manual page, some use manpage. Trust me, this >>>is a bikeshed you don't want to step into... :) >> >>Of course. What I meant to say was 'manual page is what we usually use >>for our documentation' :-) > > I like manual page as well. This was probably keramida's fault now > that I think about it... :P This looks authoritative: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style-word-list.html ... and I'd like my bikeshed pink, to match my Huffy ;) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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