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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2014 02:07:06 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r262051 - head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool
Message-ID:  <20140218015927.D1978@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <201402171323.s1HDNnQg059102@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201402171323.s1HDNnQg059102@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Mark Felder wrote:

> Log:
>  Fix formatting.
>
>  "Manpages should start a new sentence on a new line. This makes it easier
>  for translators to track changes." -jhb

This has very little to do with translators.

This makes it possible for man(1) to format the output correctly, at least
for monospaced fonts.

> Modified: head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool/zpool.8
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool/zpool.8	Mon Feb 17 13:19:27 2014	(r262050)
> +++ head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool/zpool.8	Mon Feb 17 13:23:49 2014	(r262051)
> @@ -1960,5 +1960,5 @@ implementation of this manual page was i
> The
> .Cm spare
> feature requires a utility to detect zpool degradation and initiate
> -disk replacement within the zpool. FreeBSD does not provide such a
> -utility at this time.
> +disk replacement within the zpool.
> +FreeBSD does not provide such a utility at this time.

Not splitting the line gave a hard-coded the sentence break of 1 space. 
Splitting the line allows man(1) to format with the default number of
spaces.  The default isn't 1.

Bruce



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