From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Woodruff Subject: Re: get_phys_pages.3 review Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 09:58:28 -0400 Message-ID: <55477B04.7030001@tuffbizz.com> References: <55468DF3.3070908@tuffbizz.com> <554728F2.6050406@gmail.com> <55476D0B.8070301@gmx.com> <5547798D.2070507@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5547798D.2070507-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , J William Piggott , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, William, On 05/04/2015 09:52 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi William, >=20 > 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: >> >> >>>> returns the total number of physical pages of memory available on = the >>>> system. >>>> .sp >>> >>> No need for .sp here. Just use a blank line for the para break. >> >> This is Groff specific behavior. From roff(7): >> =C2=B7 Never include empty or blank lines in a roff document. >=20 > 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. I'll follow your advice here. I've seen the rule about never using blank lines in groff, but if other pages do it, I'll assume the behavio= r is reasonable. Best, William Woodruff -- 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