Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:21:12 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <finrod@ewox.org>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Extra line breaks [was Re: An and Aq macros] Message-ID: <19981108142112.51250@follo.net> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C86sofw4ly5=2Efsf=40niobe=2Eewox=2Eorg=3E=3B_from_Dag-E?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?rling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav_on_Fri=2C_Nov_06=2C_1998_at_09=3A?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?15=3A30PM_%2B0100?= References: <86sofw4ly5.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>
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On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:15:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Can any of you doc wizards tell me why the An and Aq macros (used for > authors' names and email addresses in man pages) appear to behave > nondeterministically? Take a look at fetch(3) on FreeBSD-CURRENT; > sometimes a line break is inserted between the name and email address, > and sometimes not. The result is grueling, to say the least. This is not restricted to .An and .Aq. I've had it happen in the middle of lists - never understood why. "Just re-write until it goes away." I have little clue how this stuff works, so I didn't have any solution that was less work... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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