On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:11:19AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hello Bharni,
>
> On 2/3/19 5:27 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > Print punctuation marks (",.) with a regular style.
>
> I'm not sure that I consider the changes here are needed.
> Why do you think they are?
>
The bold typeface has the usual meaning to "stress" the text.
In manual pages it has for me the meaning of something literal, what
the user should type as shown.
So "C" (all in bold) means to me, that the quotation marks are as
important as the letter C.
Now I think that the quotation marks are unnecessary, expressions
like
C locale
POSIX locale
do not need any extra weight (being all uppercase makes them
distinct).
If they need some extra attention, italic is the usual choice, bold
can be too heavy.
N.B. I see now, that, for example, '\f' also has bold quotation marks
and
"default C locale" near the end of the last page is kept in regular
style and without any quotation mark.
--
Bjarni I. Gislason
