Re: [Patch] remove xdm reference from X(7)

2018-03-15 Thread Solène Rapenne

Le 2018-03-15 04:58, Anthony J. Bentley a écrit :
Thanks, but X(7) comes from upstream. Typically we don't modify 
upstream

manuals in Xenocara, as doing so would add more work to X updates.
Improvements to OpenBSD-maintained docs like cwm(1) and xenodm(1) are
welcome though.

Manpages often do that as a marker to run the tbl preprocessor
(similarly with 'e' for eqn, and so on).


Thanks for the insight.



Re: [Patch] remove xdm reference from X(7)

2018-03-14 Thread Anthony J. Bentley
Solene Rapenne writes:
> Hello
>
> I don't know if it's the right place to submit a diff.
>
> The man page X(7) refers to xdm(1) in "SEE ALSO".

Thanks, but X(7) comes from upstream. Typically we don't modify upstream
manuals in Xenocara, as doing so would add more work to X updates.
Improvements to OpenBSD-maintained docs like cwm(1) and xenodm(1) are
welcome though.

> I also found that the first line of the file is a comment with a
> character 't' alone.

Manpages often do that as a marker to run the tbl preprocessor
(similarly with 'e' for eqn, and so on).

-- 
Anthony J. Bentley