The man(7) in Seventh Edition Unix (1979) accepted at most six arguments to any macro. Documenter's Workbench 3.3 troff retains this limitation, as do at least some System V troffs that survive in commercial Unix (such as Solaris 10 troff).
Quote the mulitiplicity of arguments so that they will appear.
Also simplify a similar case which was using the unadjustable space
escape sequence `\ ` to work around the same problem. Since a paragraph
tag normally doesn't break or adjust anyway, the usage was mysterious.
Drop the backslashes and quote the tag as one big argument instead.
Diff of rendering (DWB):
|| logical OR
expr?expr:expr
conditional operator
- = *= /= %= += -=
+ = *= /= %= += -= <<= >>= &= = |=
assignment
expr1 , expr2
comma
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doc/bash.1 | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/bash.1 b/doc/bash.1
index bd916b28..b02e7527 100644
--- a/doc/bash.1
+++ b/doc/bash.1
@@ -4860,7 +4860,7 @@ .SH "ARITHMETIC EVALUATION"
.B \fIexpr\fP?\fIexpr\fP:\fIexpr\fP
conditional operator
.TP
-.B = *= /= %= += \-= <<= >>= &= \(ha= |=
+.B "= *= /= %= += \-= <<= >>= &= \(ha= |="
assignment
.TP
.B \fIexpr1\fP , \fIexpr2\fP
@@ -6902,7 +6902,7 @@ .SS Commands for Changing Text
.B tab\-insert (C\-v TAB)
Insert a tab character.
.TP
-.B self\-insert (a,\ b,\ A,\ 1,\ !,\ ...)
+.B "self-insert (a, b, A, 1, !, ...)"
Insert the character typed.
.TP
.B transpose\-chars (C\-t)
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