Re: [RFC] memusage.1, uri.7, user-keyring.7, user-session-keyring.7, ld.so.8, tzselect.8: srcfix: Replace \f markup by .

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael,

On 11/15/20 9:54 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Briefly...
> 
>> And I also found a few weird files (such as zic.8 and zdump.8).
>> Where do those come from?
>> I'll try to rewrite them using man(7) markup.
> 
> Stop!! These pages are special. They are periodically imported from 
> the tz project. It's an odd situation. Glibc imports these tools
> from the tz project, but does not release manual pages. So,
> periodically (when Paul Eggert reminds me), I resync the pages from
> the tz project. In general, I try to just leave them alone (although
> I have suggested a few fixes upstream to Paul), although I see
> I have touched some of those pages in global edits.

Okay.

> 
>> In the meantime,
>> I would also have to omit those files from the input to the script.
>> Do you have a list of such files?
> 
> AFAIR, the only other special page is bpf-helpers.7, which
> is generated from the kernel source files using scripts.
> Every few months, I try to remember to run the scripts
> to resync.

So, except for zic.8, zdump.8, and bpf-helpers.7,
what do you think about the current usage of \f?

I've seen a lot of appearances (many thousands),
and many of them should probably be fixed.

I think a script to fix them might be a bit difficult,
but a small C program might be easier to write.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 

Thanks,

Alex