Back in the early 1970s, it was called "syntax" when I was
writing programs in assembler and BASIC.
[My first encounter with AT&T Unix manuals and manpages was in
1985, and SYNOPSIS was a new term for me. (I was a hardware
engineer in the rest of the 1970s, and writing user manuals
for data comm
At 2017-04-20T18:04:00-0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> When I was responsible for all of the manpages in HP's HP-UX (Unix)
> reference manual and online, I always *typeset* with Courier bold, and
> used the simple hyphen character because it was all monospace.
>
> Courier was standard for all literal
When I was responsible for all of the manpages in HP's HP-UX (Unix)
reference manual
and online, I always *typeset* with Courier bold, and used the simple
hyphen character
because it was all monospace.
Courier was standard for all literals in SYNTAX, including command name,
and options
such as
Hi,
If a command is called /bin/foo-bar and it processes a file format
foo-xyzzy, then should their man pages use
foo\-bar
.IR foo\-bar (1)
.IR foo\-xyzzy (5)
...and so on? That's what I thought, `foo-bar' being a hyphen.
Various things around the place collude so both `\-', or the
