==================== Changes in man-pages-3.00 ==================== Released: 2008-06-10, Konolfingen Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Andries Brouwer Stuart Brady 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 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.