docs/177455: glabel(8) man page dangling verbal reference

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

The following reply was made to PR docs/177455; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/177455: glabel(8) man page dangling verbal reference
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:58:37 -0700

 In message <20130329132113.GB15952 at straylight.m.ringlet.net>, you wrote:
 
 >On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 04:09:02PM -0700, Ronald F.Guilmette wrote:
 >>
 >> >Number:         177455
 >> >Category:       docs
 >> >Synopsis:       glabel(8) man page dangling verbal reference
 >[snip]
 >> >Description:
 >>
 >> The man page for glabel(8) sez:
 >>
 >> 	"This class also provides..."
 >>
 >> Question:  What class?
 >
 >Uh, I think it refers to the idea of "class" introduced in the very
 >first sentence of the geom(4) manual :)
 
 That sounds entirely reasonable, but for someone coming in cold, and
 just reading _only_ the glabel man page, the sentence in question
 is entirely cryptic.
 
 
 Regards,
 rfg