On Sun Nov 3, 2024 at 9:44 AM CET, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-11-03T05:20:13+0100, onf wrote: > > Speaking of which, I noticed just recently that all of groff's > > manpages don't use all caps for subheadings (.SH)... which is about > > the first time I've seen manpage subheadings that weren't in all caps. > > Yes. This decision was discussed and taken a little over 5 years ago. > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2019-07/msg00026.html > > You may be interested in: > > groff_man(7): > > Options > The following groff options set registers (with -r) and strings > (with -d) recognized and used by the man macro package. To ensure > rendering consistent with output device capabilities and reader > preferences, man pages should never manipulate them. > ... > -rCS=1 Set section headings (the argument(s) to .SH) in full > capitals. This transformation is off by default because > it discards case distinction information.
I see, thanks for the explanation. What I forgot to mention is that my distribution uses BSD mandoc for manpages and I haven't changed that, so it just seems that mandoc's man hasn't caught up to that change (at least I haven't found anything like it in their manpages, and their man(7) recommends use of all caps with SH). ~ onf
