they do? ☺

dispite my own disregard for the convention, i was about to reply that
i think that the software should conform to human standards and
not the other way around.

but rob beat me to it.

- erik

Rob Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

| 
| Sentences begin with capital letters.
| 
| -rob
| 
| On 12/5/05, Paul Lalonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| >
| > On 5-Dec-05, at 4:07 AM, Russ Cox wrote:
| > > If you read the pages with man -P, which shows you the typeset
| > > version, these names will be in italics, which should make them
| > > easier for you to recognize as function names.  The manual is,
| > > as fgb and man(1) point out, intended to be typeset.
| >
| > Actually, my biggest man page complaint is the capitalization of the
| > symbols at the front of a sentence.  I usually B3 to find the
| > particular function I care about, and it is frequently capitalized,
| > breaking the search.
| >
| > Paul
| >
| >

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