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From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>,
	"Util-Linux" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/21] login-utils/last.1: Improve the typesetting of the manual
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 14:12:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1399378322.18824.114190781.0FF4ADDF@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140506101829.GK5962@x2.net.home>


On Tue, May 6, 2014, at 12:18, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 02:44:59PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > On Sat, May 3, 2014, at 4:32, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > >   Add a space character in front of an ellipsis
> > 
> > Hmm.  I find it clearer when the ellipsis is glued to the thing
> > that it applies to.  But, as a space before it seems to be the
> > accepted convention, okay.
> 
>  But it would be nice to be consistent. Few minutes ago I merged your
>  patch with
> 
>      - <device> [...]
>      + <device>...\
> 
>  I don't have any strong opinion about it, but I'd like to avoid 
>  situation when we every week change it.

:)

Of course.  We'll wait and see what Bjarni has to say.  If he has a
strong opinion about this, we'll go with his.  If not, we'll negotiate
and agree on something.

Benno

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-06 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-03  2:32 [PATCH 17/21] login-utils/chfn.1: Improve the typesetting of the manual Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-03  2:32 ` [PATCH 18/21] login-utils/chsh.1: " Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-06 10:03   ` Karel Zak
2014-05-03  2:32 ` [PATCH 19/21] login-utils/last-deprecated.1: " Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-03  2:32 ` [PATCH 20/21] login-utils/last.1: " Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-03 12:44   ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-05-06 10:18     ` Karel Zak
2014-05-06 12:12       ` Benno Schulenberg [this message]
2014-05-03  2:32 ` [PATCH 21/21] login-utils/login.1: " Bjarni Ingi Gislason
2014-05-03 13:02   ` Benno Schulenberg
2014-05-06 10:03 ` [PATCH 17/21] login-utils/chfn.1: " Karel Zak

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