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Branden Robinson" To: DJ Delorie Cc: Alejandro Colomar , linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: man/man8/ldconfig.8: document system-wide tunables Message-ID: <20260714065637.gzccx2gluxfa2cen@illithid> References: <20260713222234.h3efoiaq3jsakk6s@illithid> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="b6fblyke5tmyewgz" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260713222234.h3efoiaq3jsakk6s@illithid> --b6fblyke5tmyewgz Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: man/man8/ldconfig.8: document system-wide tunables MIME-Version: 1.0 [self-follow-up] At 2026-07-13T17:22:37-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2026-07-13T17:33:05-0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > Alejandro Colomar writes: > > > You should indent this compared to the surrounding text: > > > > > > .IP > > > .in +4n > >=20 > > Isn't that what the .IP does ? >=20 > There were difficulties, some imposed by the previous Linux man-pages > maintainer, Michael Kerrisk. I worded that sentence like crap, and threw shade on Michael when I didn't mean to. There was a very pretty _constraint problem_ that Michael posed to me--one I was unable to solve. Sorry, Michael! I sympathize with the problem, and don't often endorse "punching through the floor" to employ "raw" *roff requests in a man(7) document, but this was an exception. The Linux man-pages corpus is huge; Michael then and Alex now have a large management challenge, so it's reasonable to facilitate shuffling EX/EE examples from place to place in that corpus with simple copy-and-paste operations. > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/a79fc055-c7ab-1793-04eb-eb4f678e5035@gm= ail.com/ That link remains a good pr=E9cis of the problem. One could show up my man(7) composition abilities and earn my gratitude by solving that constraint problem using only macros from the package. :) Alternatively, if I think of a backward-compatible extension I can add to groff man(7) that would eliminate the need for these `in` requests, I'd likely implement it. I welcome design suggestions! I should not send mails after a 12-hour session preparing a release candidate... 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