From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: kaber@trash.net,
Netfilter Developer Mailing List
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Subject: Re: doc: escape minus sign in manpages
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:36:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496A9E8A.10405@netfilter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0901090313110.16418@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> parent fbb9d345e207d1441922d22e0be86f428c815ae7
> commit 39428b78ecfdbefb941f3eabc63f7e2d8c460e08
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
> Date: Fri Jan 9 03:09:47 2009 +0100
>
> doc: escape minus sign in manpages
>
> groff formats '-' as a hyphen, and '\-' is needed for a minus.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
> ---
[...]
> --- a/extensions/libip6t_HL.man
> +++ b/extensions/libip6t_HL.man
> @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ table.
> .PP
> .B Don't ever set or increment the value on packets that leave your local network!
> .TP
> -.BI "--hl-set " "value"
> +\fB\-\-hl\-set\fP \fIvalue\fP
I like this change.
> --- a/extensions/libip6t_LOG.man
> +++ b/extensions/libip6t_LOG.man
> @@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
> Turn on kernel logging of matching packets. When this option is set
> for a rule, the Linux kernel will print some information on all
> -matching packets (like most IPv6 IPv6-header fields) via the kernel log
> +matching packets (like most IPv6 IPv6\-header fields) via the kernel log
^^
But hyphen is fine here.
Could you rework you script to actually change only options to minus?
This would result in a smaller patch.
--
"Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 2:13 doc: escape minus sign in manpages Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-09 20:54 ` ENOBUF error during recv Ryan VanRiper
2009-01-09 22:09 ` Eric Leblond
2009-01-12 1:36 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2009-01-12 2:39 ` doc: escape minus sign in manpages Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-12 3:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-12 6:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-12 6:20 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-14 5:47 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-16 8:05 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-01-16 8:19 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-01-19 14:35 ` Patrick McHardy
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