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Branden Robinson" To: DJ Delorie Cc: alx@kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config Message-ID: <20260807040951.cnxf7c2jr5ayixsp@illithid> References: <20260807034935.elgrkedh7c2a4txp@illithid> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rxfbcg5v665c3dkb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --rxfbcg5v665c3dkb Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config MIME-Version: 1.0 At 2026-08-07T00:01:44-0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > "G. Branden Robinson" writes: > > Right. But having to know that is one of those fiddly details that > > deters people from using man(7), no? >=20 > Sure. I vastly prefer semantic syntax like
    in HTML to the > presentation syntax in roff. My complaint was just that I didn't know > how .PD worked and had to figure out where to put them, because > placement mattered and didn't do what I initially expected. Yes; I believe that's a fair criticism of `PD`, and is one reason I think the new `LS`/`LE` macros can be helpful to man(7) page authors. Regards, Branden --rxfbcg5v665c3dkb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEh3PWHWjjDgcrENwa0Z6cfXEmbc4FAmp1WogACgkQ0Z6cfXEm bc4sAA//dpJvF6ZwqcpYW+Gwxw1XJQFPUHS0FcgeMbSIW2JFSNy/xvvLPtUR1kYf zbGOqFcNQ14OXj49SsyOASNWuD7tXdOD4jgOFRufqLt2IIJWP1GN1UZzjCL/XHvt PhAN6Hk32dxRONbOrWHEH71RwucgHCEUNA5dTLbPWFzu5+zaaNo8vZhhP1hZMBgA xKvOGyoeReDJ3ML3nri1+oBMRLz+LA2mzJ/PYn4exr5Un/G0nbJQ2bHbNGOzD8zp PqeuB3yBtVIorvg7OlgKXZ/1Fidp3ae5NUHVddjwjJvSIWfyxMz9OeRiLkH7neoF dp/cE6kV/Q+T1ntDzmVJRYRq3NnMXRlWpEySzQODtiBEexWWenJ3AzUNOFbhD3Qp z/uesyH8eJ9n0eCewgwxxVjO/c5WECsY7giXGYVShS2x81y95OVXdA+Feqo9KHta xb3DdBtLCbAPS/WjQhF1LYIC7CxQez6OEwqb5ijIi96+n9+RspjALj0lnMlBXrV+ Qpdu5me5U3nBM8TtFMkZ2v4rWhJ8bWHX7xbFfreOgtABSeVENGN/wdtMySAdUBV0 O1wxMxl6+7VOQBPYTCJrnnhfAwuRfIUObjK6D+c2cUvkJ0JxgUPAy9MKjo53Zped o/Xai79qL0Zf8HHSuCMv71S5cSHuKSSJTQt7IuZjVyqNxaFJCN4= =/PbM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rxfbcg5v665c3dkb--