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Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu Jun 8 01:51:14 PDT 2006


On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 23:34 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 00:24 -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
>>> * Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at laiskiainen.org> [2006-06-05 17:56:34 +0300]:
>
>>>> So, I'd be happier if you could "fix" the boldness in commands eg
>>>> .TP
>>>> upgrade
>>>>
>>>> -->
>>>> .TP
>>>> \fBupgrade\fR
>>>
>>> Well, if you would still like me to change them after you've read my
>>> explanation above, I'd be happy to do so.
>>
>> Others don't seem to have opinion about this (or at least strong
>> opinions)
>
> I've simply somewhat lost the track :)

Heh, this is indeed a long and a winding thread :)

>>  so .. I still personally prefer the commands in bold and
>> arguments in normal text.
> So do I. AFAIS, this is what most man-pages use.
>
> BTW: Where are we wrt. to man-pages?
>
> Are we ready to remove the translations?
> Are we ready to remove the generate man-page auto*magic and the *.sgmls?

I'd say yes to both. I've been intending to start scrapping those already 
but haven't had much spare time in the last week or so :-/

 	- Panu -



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