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man-pages.7: STYLE GUIDE: Mention UNIX for Beginners
authorAlejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:31:16 +0000 (12:31 +0200)
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:19:56 +0000 (20:19 +0200)
Reported-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
[gbr: style fixes]
Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
man/man7/man-pages.7

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@@ -591,6 +591,12 @@ project.
 For details not covered below, the Chicago Manual of Style
 is usually a good source;
 try also grepping for preexisting usage in the project source tree.
+.P
+.UR https://www.ualberta.ca/\:computing-science/\:media-library/\:docs/\:unix-beginners.pdf
+UNIX for Beginners [2nd ed., Brian W.\& Kernighan]
+.UE
+also contains a noteworthy section,
+\[lq]Hints for Preparing Documents\[rq].
 .SS Use of gender-neutral language
 As far as possible, use gender-neutral language in the text of man
 pages.