Re: [PATCH] ascii.7: chase down History to earliest

[Alex Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi!

On 10/17/22 03:22, наб wrote:
> Cf., well, the UNIX Programmer's Manual:
>    https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v1/UNIX_ProgrammersManual_Nov71.pdf
> PDF page 191; yes, the typographical convention here is insane, and
> the contemprary-correct way to refer to this page from within the manual
> would be /just/ "/etc/ascii", but, given the context, "/etc/ascii (VII)"
> makes the most sense to me
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
> ---
>   man7/ascii.7 | 4 +---
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man7/ascii.7 b/man7/ascii.7
> index 1bba7bbaa..71e89384b 100644
> --- a/man7/ascii.7
> +++ b/man7/ascii.7
> @@ -134,9 +134,7 @@ F: / ? O _ o DEL
>   .fi
>   .SH NOTES
>   .SS History
> -An
> -.B ascii
> -manual page appeared in Version 7 of AT&T UNIX.
> +/etc/ascii (VII) appears in the UNIX Programmer's Manual.

I wonder if '.BR /etc/ascii (7)' wouldn't be better.

Also, shouldn't we clarify the Version 7 of the UNIX Programmer's 
Manual?  Or was it only called that way in V7?  I ignore much of history 
about those times, but I guess older versions also used the exact same 
title, right?

Maybe something like:

.BR /etc/ascii (7)
appears in the UNIX Programmer's Manual in Version 7.

I don't know if we refer to that thing in other pages.  If so, it might 
be interesting to check the syntax used there for consistency.

Cheers,

Alex

>   .PP
>   On older terminals, the underscore code is displayed as a left arrow,
>   called backarrow, the caret is displayed as an up-arrow and the vertical

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