On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:15:56PM -0500, Gregory Stark wrote: > There seems to be a strange use of exclamation marks to emphasize text > in the glibc-doc man pages. This is not how man pages are formatted. > Looking at other man pages it seems the nroff code that should be used > for these cases is .BR.
Yes, specifically: .BR pthread_equal (3), .BR pthread_join (3), [etc.] This macro just alternates its arguments between bold and roman fonts. (As a point of pedantry, this isn't a feature of [nt]roff itself, but of the -man macro set. The -mdoc macro set, commonly used in BSD-derived documentation, uses the .Xr macro to format cross-references.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
