Re: [PATCH 1/6] ld.so.8: clarify synopsis

Reuben Thomas
2011-10-20T18:28:39Z

On 20 October 2011 13:26, Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 October 2011 14:17:39 Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> On 20 October 2011 13:08, Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 20 October 2011 03:04:12 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> >> +.RB \*(lq /lib/ld-linux.so.*
>> >> +.RI [ options ]
>> >> +.I program
>> >> +.RI [ arguments ]\*(rq.
>> >
>> > can we avoid lq/rq ?  it's pretty uncommon and imo, just useless noise.
>>
>> Au contraire, proper quotation marks make man pages more readable; to
>> be encouraged.
>
> sorry, my point was lq/rq vs "", not lq/rq vs nothing ...

In that case I retract my retraction: I'd much rather have curly
quotes. They're more readable and they make it easier to tell when
quotes are part of input/output (in which case they're straight).

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