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Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] man page title


From: Roumen Petrov
Subject: Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] man page title
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2023 14:32:22 +0300
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Mike Fulton wrote:
Hi,

One of the people using the man pages for libiconv that has been ported to
z/OS
was surprised to see the title of the man pages for the various iconv
commands
with:
  Linux Programmer's Manual
in the middle of the first line.
I noticed commands like 'less' and 'find' have
   General Commands Manual

This look like manual without override for "manual section title"

and gnu make has:
   User Commands
This look like manual with override for "manual section title"

Would it be possible to change this to something OS-agnostic?
I'm not sure what is OS-agnostic.  "man command" could use "default titles" for 
manual page. Perhaps this could be considered OS-agnostic.

---
 The first command in a man page should be a TH command:

              .TH title section date source manual.
....
 manual The title of the manual (e.g., for Section 2 and 3 pages
              in the man-pages package, use Linux Programmer's Manual).
----

iconv as part of GNU C library should be "Linux ..." but outside perhaps should 
skip manual  argument

thanks, mike


Roumen




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