Hi! On 10/25/22 17:21, наб wrote:
Hi! On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 01:02:01PM +0200, Alex Colomar wrote:On 10/17/22 12:56, наб wrote:So no, (7) is wrong because it's (VII) (indeed, arabic numbers started in V7). It's not bold because you can't do that on a typewriter. You could make the argument for it being together, but the prevailing convention is either no section at all or space-before-section, and the page number has the space.I guess you're referring to the old convention (from TUPM)? In this case it's a bit weird because we're referring to an old manual page from a new manual page, so I don't know if we should use the old syntax or the new one... We now have better (or different) capabilities (bold), and arabic numbers, so we could take advantage of them... But maybe that could confuse... I guess I'll go with what you prefer, since you're writing it, and I'm not sure.Yes, I think respecting the original page number (which, while very funny spelling-wise, is very much what it is; cf. the first issue of the X/Open Portability Guide, which numbers pages as "BSEARCH(3C).3" in Part II, for example) as it was written ‒ "/etc/ascii (VII)" ‒ is bibliographically the most correct thing to do here.
Makes sense. Patch applied. Cheers, Alex
наб
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