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([2001:a61:24b3:de01:7310:e730:497d:ea6a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q12sm10219458wmc.45.2020.11.12.23.17.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:17:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man Subject: Re: Rationale for .PD 0 in old commit To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" References: <6b34f96a-7930-3338-e286-c17fad67b5e3@gmail.com> <7b38be67-711a-fd8e-539a-bf946b3ee87f@gmail.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:17:48 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7b38be67-711a-fd8e-539a-bf946b3ee87f@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi ALex, On 11/12/20 11:30 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > > > On 11/12/20 11:26 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: >> Hello Michael, >> >> I'd like to know, if you happen to remember it, >> the rationale for using [.PD 0] + [.RS] + [.TP 24] >> in perf_event_open.2. >> >> It was added in commit 2b538c3e5380cbe81a5c053cd183788e3a13f0cb. >> >> I guess it's related to the fact that >> there are too many levels of indentation, >> but is it really needed? >> I think everything fits correctly in an 80-column terminal >> without needing that workaround. >> >> Is it maybe for other than terminals? >> >> May I remove those in my attempt to simplify and standardize the markup? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alex >> > > > Ahhhh, It removes some unwanted blank lines, doesn't it? Yes. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/