[tools-discuss] Re: [desktop-discuss] Re: [companion-discuss] Proposing /usr/gnu, 2

[Susan Weber]

I am gathering information from the man page group and will send 
comments tomorrow.


-Sue


Sue Weber, Program Manager-Solaris Documentation
Nevada, Express, Trusted and OpenSolaris
(650) 786-5467 x85467
susan.weber at sun.com


Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
> 
>>>> | 2.5.  Manual pages
>>>>         In the interest of reducing manual page scavenger hunts, this
>>>>       proposal recommends the introduction of a new manual page 
>>>> section,
>>>> |     1G, to cover the introduced utilities.  (Sections 1MGNU, 3GNU, 
>>>> and
>>>> |     so forth can be added as necessary.)
>>>
>>> Is 1G a typo here, given the use of "GNU" elsewhere?
>>
>>
>>   Typo; will fix.
> 
> 
> BTW - check with the docs people - last I heard, the tools used for 
> manpages
> for most of the consolidations couldn't handle section names starting with
> capital letters.   (X gets away with it because we bring in the man 
> pages in
> pure nroff form and export as is, instead of using the SGML intermediate 
> form
> that ON/JDS/etal. use, so aren't affected by the limitations of the SGML
> tools.)
>