Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:25:05AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:14:15PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >>> If you would like to get this pushed upstream, the following would help: >>> >>> 1. Follow man-pages formatting conventions would help. In particular, the >>> use of lines containing just a "." (to force a blank line) should be >>> avoided. Just remove all of those lines. (Most man-pages do not have the >>> more than one blank line to separate sections.) > > For the record, a line containing just a "." doesn't force a blank line; > rather, it does nothing. Compare:
Cough! Yes, thanks! (Justin, do please eliminate those lines though.) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
