Re: Manual-page legends

2021-02-04 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, dem 04.02.2021 um 22:50 + schrieb Thaddeus H. Black: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:04:10PM +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > > What kind of manpages do you refer to? The kernel ones? > > Not kernel, but for a Debian-specific or Debian-derived facility > or utility. The conve

Re: Manual-page legends

2021-02-04 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:04:10PM +0100, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > What kind of manpages do you refer to? The kernel ones? Not kernel, but for a Debian-specific or Debian-derived facility or utility. > Could you give an example? Here are several well-written examples: adduser(8); console-s

Re: Manual-page legends

2021-02-04 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 04/02/2021 à 18:13, Thaddeus H. Black a écrit : Have the header and footer legends of Debian Project manual pages been discussed on this list? Is there convention or guidance? If so, then the search engine and I are unaware of it. What kind of manpages do you refer to? The kernel ones? C

Re: Manual-page legends

2021-02-04 Thread Russ Allbery
"Thaddeus H. Black" writes: > Have the header and footer legends of Debian Project manual pages been > discussed on this list? Is there convention or guidance? If so, then > the search engine and I are unaware of it. I don't recall a previous discussion of this. It's an interesting question!

Manual-page legends

2021-02-04 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Have the header and footer legends of Debian Project manual pages been discussed on this list? Is there convention or guidance? If so, then the search engine and I are unaware of it. My drafts [1] look like these: +-+ | FOO(1)