Re: Format inline code

Alejandro Colomar
2020-11-12T11:33:26Z

Hi Michael,

On 11/8/20 1:22 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
[...]
>
> Yeah, I've wondered about a conversion to .rst, but so far I'm not
> sure, and also I presume it will take a lot of work.

Interesting

[...]
>
> So, I am a little bit hesitant about "fix-as-we-go". Possibly, this
> means some pages will never be changed. If we were to make the change,
> my preference would be to do all pages at once. But I am not fixed on
> that idea. Some grepping[1] suggests that the number of pages that
> would need to be changed is around 100. Perhaps fix-as-we-go would be
> feasible...
>
> I'm still thinking about this one.

I mean: while there are many patches,
we could fix-as-we-go,
and when there are not many patches,
we could grep and fix pages that still use a mix of styles.

BTW, I'm fixing perf_event_open.2, and in the first 1400 lines
there have only been around 20 net additions due to .RS/.RE,
so it's not like a lot of extra markup
(around 1% or 2% extra lines).

Cheers,

Alex