Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>
> Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote on Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 05:07:09PM +0100:
>
>> While fixing style issues in the man-pages project,
>> I'm finding a few recurrent issues that I think you could warn about:
>>
>> Unnecessary quotations:
>>
>> [
>> .I "foo bar"
>> .I
> Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>
> On 3/20/22 10:36, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> Yes, something about this should become part of groff(7). In
>> groff_man_style(7), I have restricted the discussion to advising people
>> to use the \(dq special character (also spellable as \[dq]).
>
Hi Branden,
after a (too) long time, i once more attempted to update my private
version of the OpenBSD groff port to the current git head, to avoid
a disaster when the next release finally appears - and got
completely stuck for several hours because there are large
numbers of portability issues th
Hi Branden,
> > > +.q !$%&\[aq]()*,/:;<=>?@[\[rs]]\[ha]\`{|}\[ti] .
> >
> > I agree that nothing much is wrong with using the \[] variable
> > length character escape syntax in manual pages nowadays from the
> > point of view of portability. Then again, i'm not convinced that
> > \[aq] is more r
Hi Branden,
> At 2022-03-20T10:48:56+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > > When a double-quoted word is not space-separated from an adjacent
> > > word, it's not considered a different argument _except_ if if is
> > > the first argument.
> >
> > That description is inaccurate. It has nothing to do wi
