discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Ulrich Spörlein" <uqs@spoerlein.net>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Render \*(Pi as pi, not n
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:28:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110602092814.GO1002@acme.spoerlein.net> (raw)

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 501 bytes --]

Hello,

please consider doing the same as groff here, fixing ambiguities

Before:

     The atan2(), atan2f(), and atan2l() functions, if successful,
     return the arc tangent of y/x in the range [-n, +n] radians.

After:

     The atan2(), atan2f(), and atan2l() functions, if successful,
     return the arc tangent of y/x in the range [-pi, +pi] radians.

Although 'n' might look a little like 'π' we shouldn't replace random
letters for greek symbols that have different meaning.

Cheers,
Uli


[-- Attachment #2: pi.diff --]
[-- Type: text/x-diff, Size: 523 bytes --]

Index: chars.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/vhosts/mdocml.bsd.lv/cvs/mdocml/chars.in,v
retrieving revision 1.39
diff -u -p -r1.39 chars.in
--- chars.in	24 May 2011 21:40:14 -0000	1.39
+++ chars.in	2 Jun 2011 09:20:39 -0000
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ CHAR("*m",			"u",		956)
 CHAR("*n",			"v",		957)
 CHAR("*c",			"E",		958)
 CHAR("*o",			"o",		959)
-CHAR("*p",			"n",		960)
+CHAR("*p",			"pi",		960)
 CHAR("*r",			"p",		961)
 CHAR("*s",			"o",		963)
 CHAR("*t",			"t",		964)

             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-02  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-02  9:28 Ulrich Spörlein [this message]
2011-06-02  9:54 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-06-02 11:15   ` Ulrich Spörlein
2011-06-02 11:57     ` Ingo Schwarze
2011-06-02 13:13       ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-06-02 13:22         ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-06-02 16:09         ` Ingo Schwarze

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=20110602092814.GO1002@acme.spoerlein.net \
    --to=uqs@spoerlein.net \
    --cc=discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv \
    /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).