On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:59:13PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > The diff below replaces the occurences of "BSD" > in the manpages with the .Bx macro where appropriate. > (Some might be overkill though.) > > Specifically, it does not put .Bx inside .%T lines and the like, > e.g. ".%T Design and Implementation of 4.4 BSD", > as discussed off-list with jmc@ > > The following files > > /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 > /usr/src/share/man/man4/multicast.4 > /usr/src/usr.bin/cvs/cvsintro.7 > > are left untouched because I am not sure > what would be the best way to markup "BSD-derived" > and similar. >
i used Bx Ns -blah > > It unifies "BSD Authentication" and "BSD authentication" to > > .Bx > Authentication > > - the capitalized form seemed to be in the majority (don't know why). > > > crontab(5) says > > (BSD can't do this) > > which I rewrote as > > .Po > .Bx > can't do this > .Pc > > but I don't think it's true; surely BSD can mail > the result of a cronjob to the user. Also, it mentions > "ATT" which I assumed was meant to be AT&T UNIX > (and typed it as .At). Should factually .At also be > the one that "can't do this" above? > not sure. i'll ask. > > /usr/src/share/man/man7/mdoc.7 which describes .Bx and others > does not itself use .Bx and others - for example, it says > > .Ss \&Bx > Format the BSD version provided as an argument ... > > instead of > > .Ss \&Bx > Format the > .Bx > version provided as an argument ... > > Is this on purpose? > probably needs changed, but i'll ask. > > This replacement should probably be done for > other system names as well (occurences of > "BSD/OS" not done with .Bsx etc). Occasionaly, > SunOS is mentioned which does not have its own macro. > Would it make sense to have one? > Similarly for HP-UX, IRIX ... > well, it'd be non-portable (unless groff already has macros for this stuff). anyway, diff committed. jmc
