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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, util-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Subject: Consistency fixes in util-linux man pages
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:24:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cb60e3f-0226-e7f0-0052-08a48ea9f425@gmail.com> (raw)

Hello Karel,

Perhaps a little inspired by Helge's recent reports, I wonder about 
submitting some wide-ranging patches to improve consistency across
the util-linux manual pages.

As an example, there's quite a bit of variation in the order of 
.SH sections in the manual pages (e.g., in the placement of the SEE 
ALSO section). The pages would be more readable if the ordering was
more consistent.

Would you entertain patches that made wide-ranging changes
that fixed that sort of thing (without changing page content?

Thanks,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

             reply	other threads:[~2020-05-16  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-16  8:24 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2020-05-18  8:28 ` Consistency fixes in util-linux man pages Karel Zak
2020-05-18 10:36   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-05-18 15:03     ` Helge Kreutzmann
2020-05-19 10:38       ` Karel Zak
2020-05-19 17:23         ` Helge Kreutzmann

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