Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:20:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 style.9 Message-ID: <200007181420.KAA07426@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <43113.963902882@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> References: <20000718014644.F4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <43113.963902882@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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<<On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:48:02 +0200, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> said: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 01:46:44 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: >> (Is it possible to get each of those on one line, using .Pq somehow, or >> not, because there are two separate bits which need .Sq ?) > Probably, but there's nothing wrong with using lots of lines in mdoc. > :-) I've seen a number of bogus changes lately which turn explicit parentheses into invocations of the .Po/.Pc/.Pq requests. This is erroneous. The only circumstances in which the .Pq (or .Bq) requests should be used are those in which the punctuation in question interacts with another markup element. For ordinary parentheticals, use ordinary parentheses. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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