On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 04:21:09PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Thaddeus, > > On 9/6/21 1:40 PM, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > > This email submits to the Linux man-pages project the new manual page > > filename(7). The manual page's groff source follows in patch format. > > > > This email is copied to two other, relevant lists as a courtesy, but its > > main target is the list <linux-...@vger.kernel.org>, whose archives are > > at [https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/]. ... ... > > +.SS Capitalization > > +.P > > +A loosely observed convention favors small letters in filenames where no > > +reason to use capitals exists. > > Most manual pages talking about capitalization typically use the term 'case' > (uppercase, lowercase, case sensitive, ...); probably because of 'toupper()' > and 'tolower()'. I think, for consistency, using the same terminology would > be better.
lower-case and upper-case are the traditional typographical terms. -- hendrik
