Re: [PATCH 16/23] man-pages.7: wfix

Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-17T19:43:02Z

Hi Branden,

On 8/8/21 10:41 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
>
> Saw this while preparing the "switch to \~" change Alex invited.

Ping. You're still invited :-)

Cheers,

Alex

>
> Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
> ---
> man7/man-pages.7 | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7
> index 6cb805343..3819dfd97 100644
> --- a/man7/man-pages.7
> +++ b/man7/man-pages.7
> @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ makes it easier to write tools that parse man page source files.)
> .SS Use semantic newlines
> In the source of a manual page,
> new sentences should be started on new lines,
> -and long sentences should split into lines at clause breaks
> +and long sentences should be split into lines at clause breaks
> (commas, semicolons, colons, and so on).
> This convention, sometimes known as "semantic newlines",
> makes it easier to see the effect of patches,
>

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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/