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From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 07/13] libc.7: ffix
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 16:53:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230105225303.bpo7ot4zcsthw2gv@illithid> (raw)

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* Set page topic in lowercase.
* Use typographer's quotation marks instead of '"' for quotation.
* Hyperlink the text "GNU C Library" to its website.

Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
---
 man7/libc.7 | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/libc.7 b/man7/libc.7
index 5deba0a8e..43ec0269f 100644
--- a/man7/libc.7
+++ b/man7/libc.7
@@ -3,21 +3,22 @@
 .\"
 .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
 .\"
-.TH LIBC 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
+.TH libc 7 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
 .SH NAME
 libc \- overview of standard C libraries on Linux
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-The term "libc" is commonly used as a shorthand for
-the "standard C library",
+The term \(lqlibc\(rq is commonly used as a shorthand for
+the \(lqstandard C library\(rq
 a library of standard functions that can be used by all C programs
 (and sometimes by programs in other languages).
 Because of some history
 (see below),
-use of the term "libc"
+use of the term \(lqlibc\(rq
 to refer to the standard C library is somewhat ambiguous on Linux.
 .SS glibc
-By far the most widely used C library on Linux is the GNU C Library
+By far the most widely used C library on Linux is the
 .UR http://www.gnu.org\:/software\:/libc/
+GNU C Library
 .UE ,
 often referred to as
 .IR glibc .
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ there was for a while
 a fork of glibc 1.x created by Linux developers who felt that glibc
 development at the time was not sufficing for the needs of Linux.
 Often,
-this library was referred to (ambiguously) as just "libc".
+this library was referred to (ambiguously) as just \(lqlibc\(rq.
 Linux libc released major versions 2, 3, 4, and 5,
 as well as many minor versions of those releases.
 Linux libc4 was the last version to use the a.out binary format,
-- 
2.30.2


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             reply	other threads:[~2023-01-05 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-05 22:53 G. Branden Robinson [this message]
2023-01-05 23:53 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] libc.7: ffix Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-06  0:17   ` G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-06  0:39     ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-06  7:25       ` G. Branden Robinson
     [not found]       ` <20230106071642.ukwraci3kp5sa74r@illithid>
2023-01-06 12:06         ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-06  7:24     ` How Groupe Bull screwed French with ISO 8859-1 (was: [PATCH v3 07/13] libc.7: ffix) G. Branden Robinson
2023-01-06 23:40 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] libc.7: ffix Alejandro Colomar
2023-01-08 22:59   ` G. Branden Robinson

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