Hi Branden! On 9/7/22 00:13, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
I've seen sporadically references to the numbers as chapters, probably from when the manual was a proper book, but that term seems to have fallen in use.I don't recall seeing this. While not my preference, I would regard it as an excusable innovation in response to an unhelpful overlap in prior usage.I don't remember where I've seen this. I seem to recall it, but maybe it's just a glitch in my memory. It would certainly simplify nomenclature. If we come up with a good term for subsections such as 3head, I might start using the term colloquially. Does subchapter sound good to you?
I've got good news for you. I started writing intro(3type), after I got the first contribution of a new page to chapter 3type of the manual.
And while doing it, I found a place where the term 'chapter' is used. It's very likely that there's where I saw it the other time. It's in a comment in the intro(3) page, which seems to be there since there's git history.
The author of the page seems to be Michael Haardt; his last commit to the man-pages is from 2015, so I guess his email is still active. Maybe he can comment. I also CCed aeb and mtk, as they maintained the pages before me and may know if that term was in use at the time.
Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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