From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: alx@kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 23:09:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807040951.cnxf7c2jr5ayixsp@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xno6fe37fb.fsf@greed.delorie.com>
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At 2026-08-07T00:01:44-0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> writes:
> > Right. But having to know that is one of those fiddly details that
> > deters people from using man(7), no?
>
> Sure. I vastly prefer semantic syntax like <ul> 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
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-03 19:21 [PATCH v4 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config DJ Delorie
2026-08-06 14:37 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-06 15:33 ` DJ Delorie
2026-08-06 19:14 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-06 20:17 ` DJ Delorie
2026-08-06 20:31 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-06 20:42 ` DJ Delorie
2026-08-07 2:12 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-07 3:29 ` DJ Delorie
2026-08-07 3:49 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-07 4:01 ` DJ Delorie
2026-08-07 4:09 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2026-08-23 12:29 ` Using LS/LE (was: [PATCH v4 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config) Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-23 13:27 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-23 13:55 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-23 14:16 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-23 15:06 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-23 16:44 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-23 19:30 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-23 20:40 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-23 23:11 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-24 1:11 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-24 2:01 ` Using LS/LE Collin Funk
2026-08-24 11:08 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-24 11:00 ` Using LS/LE (was: [PATCH v4 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config) Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-23 22:31 ` autotools, was: Using LS/LE Ingo Schwarze
2026-08-24 0:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-29 4:36 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-29 11:34 ` Ingo Schwarze
2026-08-29 12:51 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-29 19:16 ` G. Branden Robinson
2026-08-29 21:43 ` Alejandro Colomar
[not found] ` <8DE76435-CBDB-42D6-9E0F-9E27291560B6@icloud.com>
2026-08-29 8:42 ` Using LS/LE (was: [PATCH v4 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config) Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-29 8:45 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-29 8:52 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-29 9:02 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-29 9:39 ` Ingo Schwarze
2026-08-29 13:10 ` configure separate from make or not (was: Using LS/LE) Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-29 15:31 ` configure separate from make or not Ingo Schwarze
2026-08-29 20:49 ` Alejandro Colomar
2026-08-30 13:17 ` Alejandro Colomar
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