Hi Andries! On 11/17/22 00:40, Andries E. Brouwer wrote:
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.Unix Programmer's Manual (4.2 BSD) August, 1983 Volume 1 Chapter I: Commands: intro, adb, ... Chapter II: System calls: intro, accept, access, ... Chapter III: Subroutines: intro, abort, abs, ... Chapter IV: Special files: intro, acc, ... Chapter V: File formats and conventions: a.out, ... Chapter VI: Games: aardvark, adventure, ... Chapter VII: Macro packages and language conventions: intro, ascii, ... Chapter VIII: Maintenance commands and procedures: intro, ac, ... Seventh Edition, January, 1979 Volume 2A 1 and 2: General Works 3 through 7: Getting Started 8 through 13: Document Preparation 14 through 18: Programming Volume 2B: 19 through 28: Supporting Tools and Languages 29 through 38: Implementation, Maintenance and Miscellaneous ... Volume 1 had chapters. The later volumes had numbered documents.
Thanks for the prompt reply!'chapter' definitely makes more sense, at least considering the manual as a book. Since it seems to have been in general use in the past, it's not so much of a breaking change to start using it now again. So, to avoid ambiguity between section referring to a chapter or section referring to part of a page, I'll start using the term [sub]chapter consistently.
With time, I expect to replace all occurrences of section that should be chapter in the man-pages.
Andries
Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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