Hi Michael, On 2020-09-22 21:57, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > The previous sentence is rather hard to parse. What (other) part of > the sentence does "to provide auxiliary information" relate to. > I suggest splitting the sentence in two and rewording. > > >> +A floating-point control mode is a system variable whose > > You suddenly introduce "floating-point control mode" here. > How does it relate to the preceding sentences? It's not clear. > > Going off to look at the standard... I see that actually your > sentences come pretty much straight from the standard. So, first, I > think the standard could have been clearer here. Second, and more > important, (for copyright reasons) we are on shaky ground if we just > lift whole passages from the standard. The text does really need to > be in your own words. Can you come up with something?> > Alternatively, I guess we could explicitly quote the standard. > Something like > > POSIX describes this type as follows: > .RS > .PP > [The text] > .RE Yes. A few patches ago I asked about that, but you didn't answer to that specifically, so I guessed that it was just fair use: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/6dc80c25-85bf-925c-49c2-f79865027c0f@xxxxxxxxx/T/#mbfdcaf4fe625b4ff7ea90dc7396005fda1283612 But I guess explicitly quoting POSIX would be easy and better, as you proposed. I never used that type, so I wouldn't dare to describe it in my own words. Thanks, Alex
