On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Rodney W. Grimes < free...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > It did take me some time to track down this "crazy concept you all > think I just invented", but it is infact in the GNU groff info > documentaton (found on my 5.4 systems in /usr/share/info/groff.info.gz):
Just to be clear, I don't think these rules apply to FreeBSD. We use mandoc. See mandoc(1) for the rules that apply to us. And, again, just to be clear, I am also pretty sure the following rule doesn't apply: > * In keeping with this, it is helpful to begin a new line after every > comma or phrase, since common corrections are to add or delete > sentences or phrases. OTOH, I believe we do have a rule about beginning each sentence on a new line. (Again, see mandoc(1).) And, it is easy to figure out whether your page complies with the style using mandoc's checkers. For example: $ mandoc -W all,stop /usr/share/man/man9/tcp_functions.9.gz mandoc: /usr/share/man/man9/tcp_functions.9.gz:284:16: WARNING: new sentence, new line Jonathan PS: I'm happy to be corrected by one of the man page experts, which I most certainly am not. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
