Re: [Groff] man pages for macro packages

[Bernd Warken]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:54:43AM -0500, Larry Kollar wrote:
> 
> Hmm... len("gutenberg.7") -> 11.  Or were you thinking about using
> "gutenberg" for an extension (like "intro.gutenberg")? I'd abbreviate
> the extension to something like  gb  since it's there only to give
> users a hint about the file type anyway....
> 
The standard man file naming 'groff_gutenberg.7' has 17 characters.  
gutenberg.7 is reserved.

`gb' sounds like Great Britain, but could be too short anyway.  Maybe
we left the 2-character age with groff.  The short names characterize
the classical packages, good; but modern interfaces can be more verbose.

Bernd Warken