Re: [PATCH 4/4] docs: setterm.1 clean up manual page groff style

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 24 May 2014 13:44, Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2014, at 13:08, Sami Kerola wrote:
>> Underline option arguments, and use bold for options.
>
> Ehm, no, that is not the style.  Italics (underline on a terminal) is
> for things that need to be replaced, need to be filled in; bold is for
> literal arguments, things that have to be typed as is.

That convention should be documented. Meanwhile I hope the following
is a bit closer how the manual should be.

New version:
https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/bbc05cc2e30a6d6a3adcc7207d5549b782f03574

-- 
Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Netdev]     [Ethernet Bridging]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux