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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [rfc/rfa:doco] Use @sc{gdb}?
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> On Sep 26,  1:40pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> 
>> >> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:33:51 -0400
>> >> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
>> >> 
>> >> I got annoyed at all the GDB's in the formatted manual being really 
>> >> large so tried changing them to @sc{gdb}.  It fixed that problem but I'm 
>> >> not sure that I like the final result :-)  (You'll need to build 
>> >> gdb.pdf, gdb ps or gdb.dvi).
>> >> 
>> >> Is there a style guide thing on this one?  Eli?
> 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > There are no strict rules on this one, AFAIK.  If the results of
>> > @sc{gdb} look nice to people, let's do it; if not, let's not.
>> > 
>> > Personally, I like the results of @sc in such cases.
> 
>> 
>> So, decision time.  Trunk and 5.3 branch?
> 
> 
> Having just been through this with GNU vs @sc{gnu}, I think it makes
> sense to do it for GDB.
> 
> Andrew, what bothered you about the result?  (You said that you weren't
> sure that you liked the final result.)

Generate a PDF and have a look at the title page.

Andrew