Re: manpage: Section 1L
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:51:49PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> "Thomas Viehmann" <tv@beamnet.de> schrieb:
> > Here's a random quote from the FHS:
> > In addition, some large sets of application-specific manual pages have an
> > additional suffix appended to the manual page filename. For example, the MH
> > mail handling system manual pages should have mh appended to all MH manuals.
> > All X Window System manual pages should have an x appended to the filename.
> >
> > The L probably stands for latex (OK, you knew that) and if they ship enough
> > manpages, they might want to add a suffix.
>
> Okay, but then all LaTeX-related manpages should have that suffix (and
> I'd prefer T for TeX, catching much more manpages). And the files should
> be named accordingly, right?
If that were the case, you'd want /usr/share/man/man1/foo.1L.gz, yes.
This is only really necessary if you're having problems with man page
name clashes, though; and I'd prefer '1latex' or '1tex' myself.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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