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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Escaping whitespace
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 13:51:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5058547d-c021-0aa9-4698-667c4917a12b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <307e6584-f163-4768-ffe9-b6b4f439e4a0@gmail.com>

Hi Alex,

On 1/5/21 10:56 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> While having a look at your latest commits,
> I saw that there's a bit of inconsistency in escaping whitespace
> (existing previous to the commit):
> 
> Sometimes it's [!\ (], and sometimes it's [! (].

Thanks for prodding me about this.

Yes, it's inconsistent. And given the use of .nf/.fi 
around the text blocks, escaping the spaces serves no
purpose. So I made a more radical fix; see commit
5c10d2c5e299011e34adb568737acfc8920fc27c

Thanks,

Michael
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-06 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-05 21:56 Escaping whitespace Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-06 12:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2021-01-07 17:11   ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-08 11:29     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-08 11:49       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-08 12:35         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-08 12:44         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-01-08 12:57           ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

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