From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: get_phys_pages.3 review Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 15:52:13 +0200 Message-ID: <5547798D.2070507@gmail.com> References: <55468DF3.3070908@tuffbizz.com> <554728F2.6050406@gmail.com> <55476D0B.8070301@gmx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <55476D0B.8070301-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: J William Piggott , William Woodruff , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi William, On 05/04/2015 02:58 PM, J William Piggott wrote: > On 05/04/2015 04:08 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hello William, >> >> On 05/03/2015 11:06 PM, William Woodruff wrote: >=20 >=20 >>> returns the total number of physical pages of memory available on t= he >>> system. >>> .sp >> >> No need for .sp here. Just use a blank line for the para break. >=20 > This is Groff specific behavior. From roff(7): > =C2=B7 Never include empty or blank lines in a roff document. I'm not sure whether that text applies or not. But in any case, we've got hundreds of pages that happily use blank lines. If you mist, you can instead use ".PP", but ".sp" seems wrong to me. Thanks, Michael --=20 Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html