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List:       coreutils-bug
Subject:    bug#22042: don't say K bytes on both head and tail's man pages
From:       Pádraig Brady <P () draigBrady ! com>
Date:       2015-11-30 22:36:23
Message-ID: 565CCF67.3080602 () draigBrady ! com
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On 30/11/15 21:14, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 06:30 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 11/30/2015 09:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Fine with me, except for "NUMth" or "NUM'th", which do not read well.
>>
>> The more-common usage is "NUMBERth", generated by 'tar --help' and also 
>> used in the sed manual.  It's a little odd but it sort of rhymes with 
>> "fourth".
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions.
> I think NUMBER is a bit long, and reduces the space for the description,
> or it my destroy the aligning.
> 
> My suggestion is NUM (which is also used in grep(1) BTW).
> Patch attached ... it's just not so tiny because I also fixed the order
> of the options of tail in the Texinfo manual.

Lots of little changes adding up to a much better result.

Looks good.

Marking bug as done.

thanks!
Pádraig




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