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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-06-11 06:55:04 +0000 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-06-11 06:55:04 +0000 |
commit | 09eefc1f0c48ed84e8b38114c379c1a2a55f83b2 (patch) | |
tree | 6d7367fa2c6c64f6f60691ff381a1ac4a02da306 /Changes.old | |
parent | 2581c94554313c91dbefd7e154d6a6c863e0a875 (diff) |
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 6653f7f9b..cd06bc0e3 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -11021,7 +11021,7 @@ Daniel Burr <dburr@topcon.com> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Felix Kater <fkater@googlemail.com> Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com> -Hamaji Shinichiro <shnichiro.hamaji@gmail.com> +Hamaji Shinichiro <shinichiro.hamaji@gmail.com> Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.fi> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> @@ -11151,7 +11151,7 @@ New pages random_r.3 mtk, after a suggestion by aeb - Documents random_r(3), srandom_r(3), initstate_r(2), and + Documents random_r(3), srandom_r(3), initstate_r(3), and setstate_r(3), which are the reentrant equivalents of random(3), srandom(3), initstate(3), and setstate(3). @@ -11659,3 +11659,87 @@ standards.7 ld.so.8 Justin Pryzby / mtk Various wording improvements. + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-3.00 ==================== + +Released: 2008-06-12, Konolfingen + + +Contributors +------------ + +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 +-------------- + +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 +--------------------------- + +tty_ioctl.4 + mtk + Small rewordings in description of packet mode. + +locale.7 + mtk + Minor formatting fixes. |