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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-07-02 16:29:50 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-07-02 16:29:50 +0000
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Put the right amount of space at sentence ends.
Make sure "i.e." and "e.g." are followed by commas (the GNU style). Put blank lines before and after every @example, prefer the previous line to end in ":" (when not a sentence end, for consistency), and prepend @noindent to the following line when appropriate. In examples, use "--" arguments when needed to prevent undesired interpretation of operands as options. Use "file name" rather than "filename", as per the GNU coding standards. Remove unwanted spaces before @footnote. Use "---" when appropriate, instead of " -- ". Use "name" (or something like that) rather than "path" or "pathname", since the GNU coding standards don't allow "path". Use @acronym, @command, @minus{}, @samp in a few places, where appropriate. (Target directory): Clarify description of example. (fmt invocation): Give issue number for reference, and reword for clarity. (sort invocation): Note that xargs without -0 also mishandles file names containing some special characters other than newline. (Translating): Mention that \012 is not universally portable. Use '\0' rather than '\000'. (Squeezing): bourne -> Bourne. Fix unportable usage of '\n' by replacing it with '[\n*]'. (More details about version sort): Remove unnecessary indent in examples. (dd invocation): Use 'kill -s USR1', not 'kill -USR1', as POSIX indicates that the former is more portable (the latter is an XSI extension). (shred invocation): Use @uref rather than @url, and use a more-typical style for the date. (kill invocation): Clarify usage; for example, "kill -s TERM -1" isn't allowed. (seq invocation): Reword to avoid implying that printf necessarily fails for numbers outside the 32-bit range. Prefer separating options from their operands. (Opening the software toolbox): Give an online reference to Robbins's article, and give a date. Don't imply that the current documentation is unchanged from his article. (Putting the tools together): Rework examples so that they don't assume the C locale; nowadays many users now operate outside the C locale by default. While we're at it, don't assume ASCII either. Indent example to match actual output from GNU uniq. Remove some unnecessary and confusing brackets from 'tr' operands. "Software Tools in Pascal" is back in print, according to Amazon anyway. Add references to Kernighan's online copies of examples.
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