All caps .TH page name

Alejandro Colomar
2022-07-21T14:29:36Z

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Hi Branden and Ingo!

I've never been convinced about the page title being in all caps in the
.TH line. From recent groff@ discussions, I guess that neither of you
are either.

I'd like to know why this has been the case historically, and any
opinions you might have about me changing the man-pages to use the same
caps as the actual identifier that I'm documenting (most of the time
that would mean lowercase). Basically, the same rules as within .SH NAME.

Also, does it have any functional implications? I'm especially
interested in knowing if that may affect in any way the ability of
man(1) to find a page when invoked as `man TIMESPEC` for example. I'm
not saying necessarily that I'd like to keep that behavior. I wouldn't
mind breaking it, if it means that users will be able to differentiate
upper- and lowercase pages. We're not in Windows (nor MacOS), anyway.

Cheers,

Alex

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