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Re: Documentation of Lua modules



Hello,

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:31:07 -0700
Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:

> > - A new manual section for Lua documentation is created, 3l.  The
> > physical directory in the source tree would then be man3l.  To
> > lookup a manpage, we use '3l' and 'lua' in man.conf.  3l will be
> > searched after section 3, before section 4.  'lua' is just an alias
> > for '3l'.

> I'd rather have it use 3lua (man3lua).  Other than that, I'm fine
> with it.

While my opinion may be irrelevant, but let me share how similar thing
is done in Debian. Here, we've moved Tcl man pages from (n), as shipped
by upstream, to (3tcl). It seems to me 3tcl (and 3lua) is much clearer
than if it were 3t and 3l.

-- 
WBR, Andrew

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