Re: [patch], mdoc(7): Fixing a warning and a table

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On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 11:58:15PM +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Bjarni,
>>
>> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
>> <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Package: man-pages
>> > Version: 3.40
>> > Severity: minor
>> > Tags: patch
>> >
>> >  From "groff -ww ..." (or "man --warnings=w ..."):
>> >
>> > <groff: mdoc.7>:294: warning: tab character in unquoted macro argument
>> >
>> >  In one table the distance between columns is too small in the
>> > "ps" output.  (Bug in the groff "doc.tmac" macro?)
>>
>> Thanks. Applied for 3.42.
>>
>
>  My patch from that day is a crude one, as I did not know enough.
> The third one (from 14th May) is the correct (best) one.
>
> .Bl -column ".Fl bullet" -compact
>  etc.

Hi Bjarni,


What I applied is below. Okay?

Thanks,

Michael

--- a/man7/mdoc.7
+++ b/man7/mdoc.7
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Create lists or columns.
 Options:
 .Bl -tag -width flag -compact
 .It Ar List-types
-.Bl -column xbullet -compact
+.Bl -column ".Fl bullet" -compact
 .It Fl bullet Ta "Bullet Item List"
 .It Fl item Ta "Unlabeled List"
 .It Fl enum Ta "Enumerated List"
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Produces
 .ne 1i
 .Ss Manual Domain Macros
 .Bl -column "Name" "Parsed" Callable" -compact
-.It Em Name    Parsed  Callable        Description
+.It Em "Name   Parsed  Callable        Description"
 .It Li \&Ad Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Address. (This macro may be deprecated.)"
 .It Li \&An Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Author name."
 .It Li \&Ar Ta Yes Ta Yes Ta "Command-line argument."


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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