Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] man/man5/tunables.conf: Document system-wide tunables config

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-man
Message-ID <20260807040951.cnxf7c2jr5ayixsp@illithid>
At 2026-08-07T00:01:44-0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> writes:
> > Right.  But having to know that is one of those fiddly details that
> > deters people from using man(7), no?
> 
> Sure.  I vastly prefer semantic syntax like <ul> in HTML to the
> presentation syntax in roff.  My complaint was just that I didn't know
> how .PD worked and had to figure out where to put them, because
> placement mattered and didn't do what I initially expected.

Yes; I believe that's a fair criticism of `PD`, and is one reason I
think the new `LS`/`LE` macros can be helpful to man(7) page authors.

Regards,
Branden
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