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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 5aded36978 man: add a mapping for external manpages
It is annoying when we have dead links on fd.o.

Add project='man-pages|die-net|archlinux' to <citerefentry>-ies.

In generated html, add external links to
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man, http://linux.die.net/man/,
https://www.archlinux.org/.

By default, pages in sections 2 and 4 go to man7, since Michael
Kerrisk is the autorative source on kernel related stuff.

The rest of links goes to linux.die.net, because they have the
manpages.

Except for the pacman stuff, since it seems to be only available from
archlinux.org.

Poor gummiboot gets no link, because gummitboot(8) ain't to be found
on the net. According to common wisdom, that would mean that it does
not exist. But I have seen Kay using it, so I know it does, and
deserves to be found. Can somebody be nice and put it up somewhere?
2014-07-07 18:36:55 -04:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek dfdebb1b92 man: xinclude --help/--version/--no-pager 2014-02-20 22:43:27 -05:00
Jan Engelhardt 73e231abde doc: update punctuation
Resolve spotted issues related to missing or extraneous commas, dashes.
2014-02-17 19:03:07 -05:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 6db2742802 man: replace STDOUT with standard output, etc.
Actually 'STDOUT' is something that doesn't appear anywhere: in the
stdlib we have 'stdin', and there's only the constant STDOUT_FILENO,
so there's no reason to use capitals. When refering to code,
STDOUT/STDOUT/STDERR are replaced with stdin/stdout/stderr, and in
other places they are replaced with normal phrases like standard
output, etc.
2014-02-14 22:03:40 -05:00
Jan Engelhardt b040723ea4 man: improvements to comma placement
This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to:
comma placement.
2013-12-25 22:53:46 -05:00
Jan Engelhardt 7964042405 man: wording and grammar updates
This is a recurring submission and includes corrections to various
issue spotted. I guess I can just skip over reporting ubiquitous
comma placement fixes…

Highligts in this particular commit:
- the "unsigned" type qualifier is completed to form a full type
  "unsigned int"
- alphabetic -> lexicographic (that way we automatically define how
  numbers get sorted)
2013-09-12 22:09:57 +02:00
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 845c53246f man: add various filenames to the index
Everything which is an absolute filename marked with <filename></filename>
lands in the index, unless noindex= attribute is present. Should make
it easier for people to find stuff when they are looking at a file on
disk.

Various formatting errors in manpages are fixed, kernel-install(1) is
restored to formatting sanity.
2013-05-03 01:00:42 -04:00
Andrew Eikum 16dad32e43 Reword sentences that contain psuedo-English "resp."
As you likely know, Arch Linux is in the process of moving to systemd.
So I was reading through the various systemd docs and quickly became
baffled by this new abbreviation "resp.", which I've never seen before
in my English-mother-tongue life.

Some quick Googling turned up a reference:
<http://www.transblawg.eu/index.php?/archives/870-Resp.-and-other-non-existent-English-wordsNicht-existente-englische-Woerter.html>

I guess it's a literal translation of the German "Beziehungsweise", but
English doesn't work the same way. The word "respectively" is used
exclusively to provide an ordering connection between two lists. E.g.
"the prefixes k, M, and G refer to kilo-, mega-, and giga-,
respectively." It is also never abbreviated to "resp." So the sentence
"Sets the default output resp. error output for all services and
sockets" makes no sense to a natural English speaker.

This patch removes all instances of "resp." in the man pages and
replaces them with sentences which are much more clear and, hopefully,
grammatically valid. In almost all instances, it was simply replacing
"resp." with "or," which the original author (Lennart?) could probably
just do in the future.

The only other instances of "resp." are in the src/ subtree, which I
don't feel privileged to correct.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Eikum <aeikum@codeweavers.com>
2012-10-16 01:03:01 +02:00
Lennart Poettering a45ad38bec man: fix --h vs. -h typos 2012-06-27 10:48:13 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 5430f7f2bc relicense to LGPLv2.1 (with exceptions)
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to
relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+.

Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into
relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within
systemd.

The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT.

The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now
link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
2012-04-12 00:24:39 +02:00
Lennart Poettering 9adf646d0a man: systemd-cat(1) typo fix
Noticed by Sergey Ptashnick
2012-03-22 00:35:19 +01:00
Lennart Poettering 44f44a29cc man: document systemd-machine-id-setup(1) 2012-03-15 22:36:33 +01:00
Lennart Poettering 9aac0b2c19 man: document systemd-cat(1) 2012-03-15 22:19:36 +01:00