UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

is there a typographic convention that is followed in the man pages.
where could a description be found.
at this time i am in man stty and the author uses upper case in some places.
and my brain is just burning to a fizzle while studying a book on bash and trying to stay in scope of the instance.
to much field landscape at one time.
thanks

Short answer: no

A lot of people have noticed this same thing, and it stems from the early days of GNU and later OSF. Basically the documentation assumed you have an info command which displays an extended, better formatted version of what you get on the man page.

TLDP (The Linux Documentation Project) has made inroads on getting quality docsets out there.

I would ignore man pages and use The Linux Documentation Project how-to and beginner's guide for bash, for example. Not everything you want is there.

Also, try the 'Advanced bash Scripting Guide' from tldp.org -- It is a lot easier to read than O'Reilly.