Re: .sp 1 in strerror.3 (and probably more pages)

[Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>]

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Hi Branden,

On 2023-08-13 18:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
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>> Here's what Michael's commit says:
>>
>>     # ".sp 1" ==> ensure a blank line before the next section heading
>>
>> (c466875ecd64 ("Various pages: Improve formatting in ATTRIBUTES"))
> 
> Thanks for the context; it helps.

I had a terminal where I had nicely prepared a lot of stuff to show you,
but it seems I completely forgot about it.  I had a lot more than that.  :/

> 
>> Yep, it explains the difference, although it doesn't explain why
>> Michael added it.
> 
> Since the Linux man-pages "ATTRIBUTES" section uses a boxed table, I'm
> betting it was working around Savannah #49390.
> 
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?49390

Yeah, that's what I suspected.  I've killed them now.  The only pages with
call now are the tz ones and bpf-helpers.7 (generated from .rst, itself
generated from kernel headers).

Cheers,
Alex

> 
> The overprinting was invisible if there was no text on the line after
> the table, but it would _look_ like the omission of the space that
> normally precedes a subsequent section heading.
> 
> Regards,
> Branden

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