Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] system_data_types.7: ffix

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-01T07:37:47Z

Hi Alex, Branden,
On 9/30/20 11:32 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Branden & Michael,
>
> On 2020-09-30 12:43, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> >> However, if using .br is a big headache, I would rather not use
> >> workarounds (as you proposed in an earlier email),
> >> and instead just live with the blank line. It's not much of a
> >> problem.
> >
> > Was an actual decision taken on this? I see patches continuing to roll
> > in containing this .br-based pattern. I think if the extra line is
> > live-withable, it should be lived with (or one of my four proposed
> > alternatives could be used :) ), in preference to setting the bad
> > example of the "naked" .br requests.
>
> No decision yet.
> We continued with the patch,
> considering that we might revert it
> or change it to a different approach in the future.

Yes. I figure we can easily clean up the inconsistency later.

> Actually I thought Michael would have hold the patches until the decision,

I didn't want to slow you down,...

> but he merged them, and it may be easier this way...
> we'll fix it when we decide.

Yes.

> For me, I can live with the extra blank line.
> Michael, what are your thoughts?

I can live with it too.

[...]

>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Branden
> >
> > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2019-03/msg00047.html
> > [2]
> https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/blob/7ac9a0e1f5606696dc799b773d5ec70183ca91a3/ps/ps.1
> >
>
>
> I was writing about the different options and testing them,
> when by accident I discovered that .RS alone, which I introduced lately,
> already fixed the problem we had in the beginning:
> .RS forces a line break after the tag
> (so .br is actually redundant right now).
>
> I guess we'll all be happy with just .RS, right? :-}

I think so.

Cheers,

Michael

PS Alex, I believe we are at a sync point right now (i.e., I think
that I do not have any unprocessed patches from you). Let me know if
I'm wrong.

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