Clarke Echols: > [...] > I went through the entire system and changed it so > the name of a command, system call, etc. was al- > ways lowercase unless the actual command or name > was uppercase or mixed-case. > > That eliminated the confusion and improved usabil- > ity. I am still opposed to making typography dif- > ferent from actual usage because it's confusing. > [...]
You had alread mentioned this, although briefly, and I completely agree with this approach. Key entities such as the names of commands and programms, special symbols and abbreviations should look the same irre- gardless of where they occur in the text, but this is orthogonal with how the text of headers, except for the aforementioned entities, which must remain unchanged, is formatted. The man package is initially configured to typeset headers in bold face, which makes the structure eas- ily viewable. But since it is not achievable in plain-text files, I have decided to use uppercase instead, just as it is done in the majority of unix manpages. I even thought of modifying the B font of the text device so as to convert it into uppercase, but that would be my last resort. Thank you for your reply, Anton
