Manpage patch, please review

André Hentschel nerv at dawncrow.de
Tue Jul 16 14:35:11 CDT 2013


Am 16.07.2013 19:59, schrieb Julian Rüger:
> Hi all!
> 
> While working on the translation of the (main) manpage, I noticed a few
> issues in the English version and started working on a patch. That was
> quite some time ago, I had little spare time lately and didn't get
> around to finish and send it in. So I figured I just take what I have
> now and ask you guys for comments. I appreciate any remarks or
> suggestions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Julian
> 
> Notes:
> 
> I had a change similar to Frédéric's, mentioning wine can run 64-bit
> programs now. He was quicker and I like his wording better. I had
> something like "[...]or Win64 executable (if your version of wine was
> compiled with 64-bit support)."
> I guess that would be more confusing to people using their distro's wine
> packages and people compiling their own wine know that anyway.
> Do you agree or do you think it's better to be more specific?

Frédéric has done it quite good, because it's committed :)
Further you can't compile Wine in 64-bit mode on 32-bit that easily, and you can't run it, your version doesn't handle that.

> CUI -> CLI:
> According to Google and Wikipedia, CLI is more common.

i'd say that's analogue to IMAGE_SUBSYSTEM_WINDOWS_CUI

> -.BR @bindir@/wineserver ,
> +.IR @bindir@/wineserver ,
> and following, similar changes:
> 
> This is the way it is formatted in the wineserver manpage. I noticed
> there is no uniform style across our manpages, so we should have a
> guideline.
> Should paths be bold or italic/underlined?

Not sure, are there other guidelines out there we can use?




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