svn commit: r192908 - in head: share/man/man9 sys/conf sys/kern sys/sys

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Thu May 28 15:39:49 UTC 2009


Ben Kaduk <minimarmot at gmail.com> writes:
> Our man page style says that new sentences should start on new lines.
> (Since the '.' character is used for defining macros, and sometimes
> the processor can get confused.)

That's not the reason - the reason is that it makes diffs easier to
read, which in turn makes it easier for our translators to keep the
translated man pages in sync.

DES
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