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

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:59 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> > 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.
>

No such rule exists, and even if it did, it's never been enforced in the
last 23 years I've been committing to man pages.  I know I'd flat out
ignore you if you told me to do that after a commit I did.

Warner