9front - general discussion about 9front
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Humm <hummsmith42@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Re: man pages
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:20:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YSViiIAobiONMRrN@beryllium.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C57B4726A9A11B3CD370F4ABC0ACFBC1@wopr.sciops.net>

> I'm sure there are all of sorts of inconsistencies all over the 
> place, but expecting anyone to review and fix everything at once is 
> too much, it won't happen.

Oh yes, there are.  What comes to mind immediately is citation style 
and handling of options in SYNOPSIS (sometimes all are listed and 
sometimes there is just “[options]”), as well as just bad troff.  
There are some checks for bad stuff (see for example `mk punccheck` in 
/sys/man).

-- 
Humm

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-24 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CABB-WO9mMVTigW9s96s88nPvA8fEijD6m-K_aR-=cMvDG363dQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-08-14 16:56 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 17:21   ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 20:27     ` qwx
2021-08-24 21:02       ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 21:09         ` hiro
2021-08-24 21:13           ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 21:33           ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-24 21:34         ` ori
2021-08-24 23:42           ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-25  1:02             ` ori
2021-08-25 12:05               ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-25 22:50                 ` ori
2021-08-26 10:02                   ` Stuart Morrow
2021-08-26 14:26                     ` ori
2021-08-24 21:49         ` qwx
2021-08-24 21:20       ` Humm [this message]
2021-08-25  3:18         ` ori
2021-08-25  9:37           ` hiro

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=YSViiIAobiONMRrN@beryllium.local \
    --to=hummsmith42@gmail.com \
    --cc=9front@9front.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).