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([2001:a61:2482:101:3351:6160:8173:cc31]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i5sm8933127wrw.77.2020.04.20.00.23.19 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:23:19 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Errors in man pages, here: wavelan(4): Markup/Formatting To: Helge Kreutzmann References: <20200419064836.GA32609@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <726433d8-90cf-dd3b-6fcc-30b4f5451644@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:23:18 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200419064836.GA32609@Debian-50-lenny-64-minimal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-man-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Dear manpages maintainers. > the manpage-l10n project maintains a large number of translations of > man pages both from a large variety of sources (including manpages) as > well for a large variety of target languages. > > During their work translators notice different possible issues in the > original (english) man pages. Sometiems this is a straightforward > typo, sometimes a hard to read sentence, sometimes this is a convention > not held up and sometimes we simply do not understand the original. > > We use several distributions as sources and update regularly (at > least every 2 month). This means we are fairly recent (some > distributions like archlinux also update frequently) but might miss > the latest upstream version once a while, so the error might be > already fixed. We apologize and ask you to close the issue immediately > if this should be the case, but given the huge volume of projects and > the very limited number of volunteers we are not able to double check > each and every issue. > > Secondly we translators see the manpages in the neutral po format, > i.e. converted and harmonized, but not the original source (be it man, > groff, xml or other). So we cannot provide a true patch (where > possible), but only an approximation which you need to translate into > your source format. > > Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are > not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the > problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify > them. > > I'm now reporting the errors for your project. As requested, each > issue is sent in an unique mail for easier tracking on your side. If > future reports should use another channel, please let me know. > > ** > > Why is wavelan marked up here? It is not marked up in other places. I changed it to B But, I think the point is that this instance refers to the diver interface, while the others refer to "wavfelan" as a more general term. I agree that this is not easy to discern, though. Thanks, Michael > "I is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent " > "B and Digital (DEC) B wireless ethernet " > "adapter. This driver is available as a module or might be compiled in the " > "kernel. This driver supports multiple cards in both forms (up to 4) and " > "allocates the next available ethernet device (eth0..eth#) for each card " > "found, unless a device name is explicitly specified (see below). This " > "device name will be reported in the kernel log file with the MAC address, " > "NWID and frequency used by the card." > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/