Re: [PATCH 4/5] man/captoinfo.1m: Revise.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 02:14:43PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
...
> * Increase precision of discussion.  For instance, speak of standard I/O
>   streams more explicitly, by reference to the concept instead of C
>   standard library symbol names.  As another example, an environment
>   variable's name is not the same thing as its contents, and should not
>   be discussed as if it is.  A third: talking about "IBM PC high-half
>   graphics" in reference to CCSID (code page) 437.  We can do better
>   than the dissipated and slovenly discourse of Unix terminal rooms of
>   the past, where code cowboys jockeyed for status with the hermeticism
>   of their utterances.

fwiw, that section was by Eric Raymond in 1995-1996
 
> * Refer to XENIX in the past tense; it seems to be a dead product.

agreed - I used in in 1986 or 1987.
 
> * Capitalize "ACS" (presumably a DEC reference?).

as I read it, that's "alternate character set", though how XENIX used
the feature, I don't know (about half the time, I can answer these
questions with a manual from bitsavers - the other half, no luck).
 
> * Drop explicit indentation from `TP` call in "FILES" section.  The
>   ncurses man pages seem to follow no consistent format here (cf.
>   infocmp.1m, ncurses.3x, panel.3x, term.5, and terminfo.tail, each
>   taking a different approach).  I choose the simplest.

hmm - TP wants to indent everything by 8 columns, which in nested lists
eats a lot of space.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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