Bjarni, On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 08:51:41AM +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Bjarni, >> >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Package: man-pages >> > Version: 3.40 >> > Severity: minor >> > Tags: patch >> > >> > From "groff -ww ..." (or "man --warnings=w ...": >> > >> > <standard input>:758: warning: escape character ignored before `>' >> > >> > Also periods (full stop) in ellipises "protected" with "\&". >> >> My knowledge here is a bit thin. Can you expand on the previous sentence please. >> > > This "protection" is actually only necessary, if the > (unprotected) ellipsis is at the start (becomes a groff macro > command) or (almost) at end of a line (last period interpreted as > an end of a sentence). That can happen, if the paragraph (line) > gets later reformatted or changed in the source. Ahh -- okay. It's not currently broken then, so I'll leave as is, but I will apply the fix to "\>>". Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
