From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] manpages: more fixes to minuses, hyphens, dashes
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:15:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8D68AC.7050408@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250780978-14013-5-git-send-email-jengelh@medozas.de>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Debian still carries patches patches to the iptables nroff code touching
> ASCII minuses, so I thought, what's it this time.
>
> Eventually, this patch tries to straighten things once more, per
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Hyphens and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dashes .
>
> Titles will get the em dash; all typed commands or parameters with a
> hyphen get a minus (so that man(1) hyperlinking and copy-pasting does
> work), but other mentions get the hyphen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Also applied, thanks a lot Jan.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-20 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-20 15:09 Manpage updates for iptables Jan Engelhardt
2009-08-20 15:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] length: support semi-infinite length description Jan Engelhardt
2009-08-20 15:12 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-08-20 15:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-08-20 15:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] ipt_set: fix a typo in the manpage Jan Engelhardt
2009-08-20 15:13 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-08-20 15:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-08-20 15:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-08-20 16:47 ` Phil Oester
2009-08-24 12:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-08-20 15:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] manpage: fix lintian warnings Jan Engelhardt
2009-08-20 15:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-08-20 15:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] manpages: more fixes to minuses, hyphens, dashes Jan Engelhardt
2009-08-20 15:15 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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