On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 08:38:03AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:01:16PM +0200, Nicolas Joly wrote: > > To be consistent across all pages, we should use a single expression > > in all pages. I'm for using the `.Brq Dv NAME_MAX' one, which add the > > braces (without spaces, following the opengroup man pages) using a > > mdoc macro. > > I think all #defined constants should be marked with just .Dv, as is noted > also in mdoc.samples(7). If the ".Brq Dv" would be preferred, there are > thousands (or maybe even tens of thousands...) instances that should be > changed as well.
I don't think we must necessary do the same for all defined values... For NAME_MAX and a few others, while they are indeed defined values, they are refered in man pages more as symbolic limits. My point here was to follow the opengroup typographic conventions. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/frontmatter/typographics.html -- Nicolas Joly Biological Software and Databanks. Institut Pasteur, Paris.
