From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <aeb@cwi.nl>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>,
Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>,
linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
groff@gnu.org, Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>,
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>,
"Andries E. Brouwer" <aeb@cwi.nl>
Subject: Re: Ping^1: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: /usr/bin/rst2man: rst2man: .TH 5th field shouldn't be empty)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:57:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221212135705.GA138593@if> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221212131922.e37ltilm6qv4invd@illithid>
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 07:19:22AM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The 4.2BSD provenance is particularly valuable, in that it illustrates
> how the terminology was retained
Earlier I replied and showed a snapshot of the history.
Contemporary:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
All Sections
https://man.openbsd.org
All Sections
A random Oracle man page for SunOS:
man pages section 2: System Calls
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/os/reading_unix_manual_pages
"Section 1 of the man pages covers command-line tools, section 2 covers system calls, section 3 covers user-space libraries, and so on."
Etc.
It may be true that there was historical use of "chapter", but
all common places today have "section".
Andries
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2022-11-17 0:28 ` Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: /usr/bin/rst2man: rst2man: .TH 5th field shouldn't be empty) Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-11 16:40 ` Ping^1: " Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-11 19:05 ` Michael Haardt
2022-12-11 19:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-11 21:10 ` Michael Haardt
2022-12-12 0:34 ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-12 11:39 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-12 8:58 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-12 13:19 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-12 13:57 ` Andries E. Brouwer [this message]
2022-12-12 13:39 ` Colin Watson
2022-12-12 13:48 ` Alejandro Colomar
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2022-12-17 11:51 ` Ping^1: " Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-17 13:19 ` [BUG] gropdf, tbl: Completely broken table (was: Ping^1: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: ...)) Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-17 16:08 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-17 21:26 ` Deri
2022-12-18 11:25 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-18 5:49 ` [BUG] gropdf, tbl: Completely broken table Ralph Corderoy
2022-12-18 11:01 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-18 11:46 ` [BUG] gropdf, tbl: Completely broken table (was: Ping^1: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: ...)) Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-19 5:32 ` groff 1.23.0.rc2 status report (was: [BUG] gropdf, tbl: Completely broken table) G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-19 12:58 ` Deri
2022-12-19 16:39 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-19 16:59 ` patching suffixes(7) (was: groff 1.23.0.rc2 status report) G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-19 19:10 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-19 19:54 ` prehistory branch (was: patching suffixes(7) (was: groff 1.23.0.rc2 status report)) Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-19 20:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-20 3:40 ` patching suffixes(7) (was: groff 1.23.0.rc2 status report) G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-20 10:12 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-19 16:51 ` groff 1.23.0.rc2 status report (was: [BUG] gropdf, tbl: Completely broken table) G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-17 21:37 ` Ping^1: Chapters of the manual (was: Bug#1018737: /usr/bin/rst2man: rst2man: .TH 5th field shouldn't be empty) Deri
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