Authors of version 3.00
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.00 ====================Released: 2008-06-12, Konolfingen
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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The POSIX.1 man pages (sections 0p, 1p, 3p) have been moved out
of this package into the separate man-pages-posix package.
This made sense because those pages are seldom changed (only formatting
fixes, etc.) so that it was unnecessary to redistribute them with each
man-pages release.
console_codes.4
random.4
dir_colors.5
proc.5
glob.7
Stuart Brady
s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for
proper rendering in UTF-8.
Various pages
mtk, after a note from Stuart Brady
Using /'x'/ to denote a character (string) renders poorly in
UTF-8, where the two ' characters render as closing single
quotes. On the other hand, using /`x'/ renders nicely on UTF-8,
where proper opening and closing single quotes are produced by
groff(1), but looks ugly when rendered in ASCII. Using the
sequence /\\aqx\\aq/ produces a reasonable rendering ('\\aq'
is a vertical "apostrophe quote") in both UTF-8 and ASCII.
So that change is made in a number of pages.
See also http://www.cl.cal.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html.
Various pages
mtk
Replace form /`string'/ by /"string"/, since the former renders
poorly in ASCII.
termios.3
console_codes.4
tty_ioctl.4
termcap.5
charsets.7
mtk
Control character names (^X) are written boldface, without
quotes.
printf.3
scanf.3
proc.5
glob.7
regex.7
mtk
Various edits to try and bring some consistency to the use of
quotes.
Changes to individual pages
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tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Small rewordings in description of packet mode.
locale.7
mtk
Minor formatting fixes.