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From: "Robin Jarry" <robin@jarry.cc>
To: "Benno Schulenberg" <bensberg@telfort.nl>, <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] bits: (man) normalize the markup and improve some layout
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:58:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D98TQ2YGI9TT.29EIM96TKSRJO@ringo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250417094825.20870-1-bensberg@telfort.nl>

Hi Beno,

Benno Schulenberg, Apr 17, 2025 at 11:48:
> The convention in man pages is: to put command arguments in lowercase
> and without angle brackets (these are for --help texts), and without
> unneeded abbreviations.  Literal values (as in some examples) should
> be in bold, not in italics.
>
> CC: Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>
> Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>

Reviewed-by: Robin Jarry <robin@jarry.cc>

Thanks for the cleanup!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-04-17  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-17  9:48 [PATCH 01/10] bits: (man) normalize the markup and improve some layout Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 02/10] last: (man) correct the descriptions of --present and --since Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 03/10] last: (man) reduce an inflated table to sane proportions Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 04/10] rtcwake: " Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 05/10] terminal-colors.d: (man) reduce two tables to succinct lists Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 06/10] renice: in usage text, condense the oververbose description of option -n Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 07/10] renice: (man) reword several things, to be clearer, and improve some markup Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 08/10] lscpu: (man) don't refer to a missing section, and improve some wordings Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 09/10] docs: correct misspellings of "may be" and mistaken uses of "overwritten" Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:48 ` [PATCH 10/10] docs: correct mistaken uses of "overwrite" to say "override" instead Benno Schulenberg
2025-04-17  9:58 ` Robin Jarry [this message]
2025-04-24  9:57 ` [PATCH 01/10] bits: (man) normalize the markup and improve some layout Karel Zak

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