Re: get_phys_pages.3 review

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Hi William,

On 05/04/2015 02:58 PM, J William Piggott wrote:
> On 05/04/2015 04:08 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hello William,
>>
>> On 05/03/2015 11:06 PM, William Woodruff wrote:
> 
> 
>>> returns the total number of physical pages of memory available on the
>>> system.
>>> .sp
>>
>> No need for .sp here. Just use a blank line for the para break.
> 
> This is Groff specific behavior. From roff(7):
>  ·      Never include empty or blank lines in a roff document.

I'm not sure whether that text applies or not. But in any case,
we've got hundreds of pages that happily use blank lines.
If you mist, you can instead use ".PP", but ".sp" seems
wrong to me.

Thanks,

Michael

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