Hallo Ingo. Ingo Schwarze wrote in <20200915133505.gi1...@athene.usta.de>: |Hi Steffen, | |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 01:59:04PM +0200: | |> Just out of interest: why do you change an omnipresent idiom that |> is in use for standard section headers in Unix manual pages since |> at least fourty years? This commit changes the world and will |> affect the generations of programmers to come, shall they |> experience it. I mean, it is ok, why not, it only strives me as |> mysterious. And i think i will unsubscribe now, shall i ever find |> time for my groff clone, .. i do not know. Not that it matters |> anyway. | |The advantages of "Name" compared to "NAME" for separation of content |and presentation, for typographic quality, and in particular for |accessibility were discussed at length on this list, please consult |the archives.
Well, now that you say it have fuzzy memories .. and refreshed them. Used to and living in text consoles only (though in graphical environment, again) i .. have mixed feelings, because now i am used to this notation for over twenty years. I think it does make sense for several output devices, notably PDF, maybe even HTML, or markdown even, but for manual page output i feel differently. Anyhow, if i make it, maybe i even follow but place a switch in site- and user-local configurations, for noone to find it ^_^. Ciao, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
