Re: Ping^1: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: /usr/bin/rst2man: rst2man: .TH 5th field shouldn't be empty)

2022-12-11 Thread Michael Haardt
I just checked what is easily available to me: v7 calls them sections in intro pages, but chapters in man(1) and man(7). Celerity Computing UNIX (looks like a BSD port) calls them sections in intro pages and man(7), but chapter in manv(7) (dtroff version of man(7)). SunOS 4.1.1 calls them sectio

Re: Ping^1: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: /usr/bin/rst2man: rst2man: .TH 5th field shouldn't be empty)

2022-12-11 Thread Michael Haardt
> Admittedly, it's hard to defend my proposal as _necessary_. Especially after > the world has lived for decades with the ambiguity of having chapters as > sections and sections also as... sections. Well, one are the volume sections and the other manpage sections. :) Originally, Unix documenta