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Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?


From: 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


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