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Re: [Groff] man pages for macro packages


From: Bernd Warken
Subject: Re: [Groff] man pages for macro packages
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:40:28 +0100
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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:32:26PM -0500, Larry Kollar wrote:
> 
> Hm. In days of old, when *roff'ers were bold, all the macro packages
> started with 'm'. Thus we had man(7), ms(7), etc. 

Sounds good, I just didn't dare to.

> Why not stick
> with what was once established practice & call the macro manpage
> mgutenberg(7)? (Presumably, you would use  groff -mgutenberg yadda
> right?) That would leave gutenberg(7) free for describing the project.
> 
I can see that `gutenberg' will break the filename length of 14.
A shorter name is necessary.  I proposed `gutenb' to the project,
they do not bother about naming.
> 
Bernd Warken


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