Re: Issue in man page namespaces.7

[Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

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Hi Branden,

On 1/22/23 22:02, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I would use \fP instead of \fR, this way you return to the "previous"

Ahh, yes, thanks for catching that!  Sleeping 3 hours is definitely not good for 
the brain :P

> font, not the roman style in the current family.  This is important in
> (sub)section headings because they are normally set in boldface, so
> switching to roman explicitly would unintentionally put "directory" on a
> diet (i.e., cause it to lose [stroke] weight).
> 
> With that correction, I'm +1.
> 
> But I would also quote multi-word arguments to _any_ man(7) macro.

Why is it?  I remember you mentioned that, but what's the win?

> 
> Thus:
> 
>> +.SS "The \fI/proc/sys/user\fP directory"
> 
> Equivalently, if one doesn't care about portability to ancient
> formatters...
> 
>> +.SS "The \f[I]/proc/sys/user\f[] directory"

Interesting.  I'll consider that for the long term.  However, for now I'll keep 
\fP style.

> 
> ...will suffice.
> 
> (One might reasonably wonder why "\fI" doesn't cause a loss of stroke
> weight, too.  In groff 1.22.4 and earlier, it does.  In groff 1.23.0,
> the man(7) package remaps the "I" to "BI".)
> 
> Regards,
> Branden

Cheers,

Alex

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