I am gathering information from the man page group and will send comments tomorrow.
-Sue Sue Weber, Program Manager-Solaris Documentation Nevada, Express, Trusted and OpenSolaris (650) 786-5467 x85467 susan.weber at sun.com Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > >>>> | 2.5. Manual pages >>>> In the interest of reducing manual page scavenger hunts, this >>>> proposal recommends the introduction of a new manual page >>>> section, >>>> | 1G, to cover the introduced utilities. (Sections 1MGNU, 3GNU, >>>> and >>>> | so forth can be added as necessary.) >>> >>> Is 1G a typo here, given the use of "GNU" elsewhere? >> >> >> Typo; will fix. > > > BTW - check with the docs people - last I heard, the tools used for > manpages > for most of the consolidations couldn't handle section names starting with > capital letters. (X gets away with it because we bring in the man > pages in > pure nroff form and export as is, instead of using the SGML intermediate > form > that ON/JDS/etal. use, so aren't affected by the limitations of the SGML > tools.) >
