"Someone searching in the manual for this specific topic will start focussed reading from a point where that text may not even be visible in their terminal."
Assuming that reading is a kind of a "conversation...." The challenge in terms of writing is one of restricting that conversation to issues that the reader already knows about, or will know about soon. Watching a DVD you haven't seen before in reverse scene order would make it obvious enough. That's a generalized description, but it's one that's recurred. At the same time, it really isn't so terribly urgent. Most people know, as I myself learned here, that man pages usually aren't written for newbies. Of course, writing well by committee is always harder. Wiley Seattle p.s. Let the criticism commence.
