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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:12:48 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r262051 - head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool
Message-ID:  <4039559.iRvSyCHsfX@pippin.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20140218015927.D1978@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201402171323.s1HDNnQg059102@svn.freebsd.org> <20140218015927.D1978@besplex.bde.org>

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On Tuesday 18 February 2014 02:07:06 Bruce Evans wrote:
> 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.

My bad.  I knew the rule, but not the correct reason.

-- 
John Baldwin



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