svn commit: r342600 - head/share/man/man5
Mateusz Piotrowski
0mp at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 29 23:00:21 UTC 2018
Author: 0mp (ports committer)
Date: Sat Dec 29 23:00:20 2018
New Revision: 342600
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/342600
Log:
style.mdoc.5: Suggest preferred formatting for EXAMPLES
Add an example of how to format examples in EXAMPLES sections. The
suggested format is heavily based on zfs.8.
While here, capitalize subsection titles.
Reviewed by: bcr
Approved by: bcr (doc),
Approved by: krion (mentor, implicit), mat (mentor, implicit)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18681
Modified:
head/share/man/man5/style.mdoc.5
Modified: head/share/man/man5/style.mdoc.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/style.mdoc.5 Sat Dec 29 21:36:02 2018 (r342599)
+++ head/share/man/man5/style.mdoc.5 Sat Dec 29 23:00:20 2018 (r342600)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 28, 2018
+.Dd December 29, 2018
.Dt STYLE.MDOC 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ file style guide
This file specifies the preferred style for manual pages in the
.Fx
source tree.
-.Ss Code examples
+.Ss Code Examples
.Bl -dash -width ""
.It
Use literal formatting for examples and literal shell commands, e.g.:
@@ -68,7 +68,53 @@ Then run
.Dq Nm make Cm install Cm clean .
.Ed
.El
-.Ss Synopsis formatting
+.Ss EXAMPLES Section
+.Bl -dash -width ""
+.It
+Format the
+.Sx EXAMPLES
+section in the following way:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&.Bl -tag -width 0n
+\&.It Sy Example 1\&: No Doing Something
+\&.Pp
+The following command does something.
+\&.Bd -literal -offset 2n
+\&.Li # Ic make -VLEGAL
+\&.Ed
+\&.It Sy Example 2\&: No Doing Something Different
+\&.Pp
+The following command does something different.
+\&.Bd -literal -offset 2n
+\&.Li # Ic bectl list
+\&.Ed
+\&.Pp
+It is good to know this command.
+\&.El
+\&.El
+.Ed
+.Pp
+which renders as:
+.Bd -filled -offset indent
+.Bl -tag -width 0n
+.It Sy Example 1\&: No Doing Something
+.Pp
+The following command does something.
+.Bd -literal -offset 2n
+.Li # Ic make -VLEGAL
+.Ed
+.It Sy Example 2\&: No Doing Something Different
+.Pp
+The following command does something different.
+.Bd -literal -offset 2n
+.Li # Ic bectl list
+.Ed
+.Pp
+It is good to know this command.
+.El
+.Ed
+.El
+.Ss Synopsis Formatting
.Bl -dash -width ""
.It
Do not put whitespace between alternative parameters separated with a pipe
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