svn commit: r333494 - head/share/man/man7

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Fri May 11 16:59:34 UTC 2018


> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Rodney W. Grimes
> <freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >> @@ -67,7 +72,8 @@ Changes are first committed to CURRENT and then usuall
> >>  to STABLE.
> >>  Every few years the CURRENT branch is renamed to STABLE, and a new
> >>  CURRENT is branched, with an incremented major version number.
> >> -Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with consecutive minor numbers.
> >> +Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with consecutive minor
> >> +numbers.
> >
> > Proper place to line break long lines is at conjuncatives such
> > as the "and" above, yeilding:
> 
> What?  Are you just inventing these rules out of blue sky?  What
> possible reason is there to do as you have proposed?

Well known and established man page style rules, documented someplace,
which I can not seem to locate right now.

> Conrad

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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