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Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?
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Larry Kollar |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation? |
Date: |
Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:44:43 -0400 |
John Gardner <address@hidden> wrote:
> It's ironic how this convention of unconventional formatting has stuck
> around since the beginning, but in over 40 years of writing manpages,
> nobody's been able to agree on a consistent way of hyphenating the damn
> word.
>
> Manpages, man-pages, or man\(empages?
I’ve always made it a compound word, “manpages.” And I’m in violent agreement
with your and Brandon’s assessment of all-caps headings. Shoot, there aren’t
many
terminal programs that *can’t* do bold these days; I think even that VT220 I
keep
planning to connect to my iMac can do it.
Given a choice, I never all-caps my manpage headings. I’ve succumbed to
convention
once or twice, maybe. It would be cool if man(1) could recognize an all-caps
string
flush left, and turn it into bolded title case.
Larry
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, (continued)
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/22
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/25
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Steve Izma, 2018/04/25
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Mike Bianchi, 2018/04/25
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/25
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Steve Izma, 2018/04/25
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/26
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/25
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?,
Larry Kollar <=
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/22
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/04/22
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Keith Marshall, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, John Gardner, 2018/04/20
- Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, G. Branden Robinson, 2018/04/21
Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/16