Re: All caps .TH page title

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

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Hi,

On 7/22/22 12:35, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> BTW, I think I didn't reply (or if I did was very short) to your comment 
> that other languages may find it difficult to mirror our use of 
> subsections, since their main section is already a subsection (e.g., 
> 3pl).  I'd say that since C is the native Unix language, and others are 
> just... others?, I'd optimize for C, and let other languages find a way 
> to document their things.  It would be easy to say just go away, the man 
> pages are for C, but I won't dare to say that, since I like man pages, 
> and I'd like to see more documentation for languages that I sometimes 
> have to use be in the form of man pages, so I'll try to come up with a 
> more imaginative answer:  how about using subsubsections of the form 
> 3pl_type?  At least it's a possibility.  man(1) would handle them as any 
> other subsection, but that's not a big problem.  Maybe man(1) could 
> develop a way to provide subsubsections...  Colin, any ideas in this 
> regard?

Or, maybe it's the time to write a whole new volume?  I think there's a 
comparable difference between 3type and 3 than between 2 and 3 or 1 and 
8, so it would be merited.  I didn't do it before for two reasons: it 
might break software that assumes than Unix manuals use a single number 
followed by an optional string (I'd say it's not a fair assumption to 
say that man9 would be the last one ever used; if there's 9, there might 
be a 10 some day), and because other projects had already used 3type.

But, that would start a clean namespace.  Maybe it's worth it.

How would you feel if I inaugurate man10 for types, and later man11 for 
non-function-like macros? :D


Cheers,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
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