Re: [Groff] man pages for macro packages

[Clarke Echols]

Since normal troff practice was to drop the first "m" from the macro
package name to form tmac.an for man macros, tmac.m for mm macros, why
not tmac.gutenburg?  That's 14.

Clarke

Larry Kollar wrote:
> 
> Bernd Warken <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > Why not stick with what was once established
> > > practice & call the macro manpage mgutenberg(7)?
> 
> > I can see that `gutenberg' will break the filename length of 14.
> > A shorter name is necessary.
> 
> Hmm... len("gutenberg.7") -> 11.  Or were you thinking about using
> "gutenberg" for an extension (like "intro.gutenberg")? I'd abbreviate
> the extension to something like  gb  since it's there only to give
> users a hint about the file type anyway....
> 
>         Larry
> 
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