From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from kerhand.co.uk (_smtpd@82-69-137-214.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.137.214]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4BHB3Ej015923 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 11:11:03 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (1000@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by kerhand.co.uk (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1273611560.ub3h1vE8LW5LG9po for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 21:58:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:58:56 +0059 From: Jason McIntyre To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: mdoc section ordering Message-ID: <20100511205920.GC24992@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> References: <20100511115233.GV88504@acme.spoerlein.net> <20100511134542.GA24992@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> <20100511145711.GW88504@acme.spoerlein.net> <20100511154317.GB24992@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> <20100511162352.GY88504@acme.spoerlein.net> <4BE9B98D.3060706@bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BE9B98D.3060706@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:09:49PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote: > > Jason, in my opinion, COMPATIBILITY and STANDARDS shouldn't be merged in > all cases. Take mdocml's man.7 and mdoc.7, for example: the > COMPATIBILITY section is used to enumerate the differences between > troffs and mandoc. Since -man, -mdoc, etc. aren't standards, where else > would this go? > a separate section sometimes makes sense, yes. but for the general case, we found it didn;t warrant the need for an "official" section. jmc -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv