Re: Manual page sections shouting

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

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On 1/7/23 01:25, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Branden,
> 
> I agree with you that I'd prefer that section headings didn't shout at the 
> reader.  However, I've waited to do such a change, because I'm not sure about 
> it.  There's a good thing about having them in uppercase: references to them are 
> also in uppercase, and that makes it easy to grep for them (I need to do that 
> from time to time).
> 
> Do you have any opinion on that?

Also, when referring to the section within a page, would you refer in lowercase, 
or the first-upper-then-lower?  Using uppercase is unambiguous, while using 
lowercase might need "section" next to the section name.  Maybe it's not so easy 
to do the change.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex
> 

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