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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>2022-06-10 12:31:16 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-05-17 10:11:17 +0200
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man-pages.7: STYLE GUIDE: Mention UNIX for Beginnersufb
Reported-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> [gbr: style fixes] Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -574,6 +574,12 @@ project.
For details not covered below, the Chicago Manual of Style
is usually a good source;
try also grepping for preexisting usage in the project source tree.
+.PP
+.UR https://www.ualberta.ca/\:computing-science/\:media-library/\:docs/\:unix-beginners.pdf
+UNIX for Beginners [2nd ed., Brian W. Kernighan]
+.UE
+also contains a noteworthy section,
+\[lq]Hints for Preparing Documents\[rq].
.SS Use of gender-neutral language
As far as possible, use gender-neutral language in the text of man
pages.