Use a single-font-style macro (".B", ".I") for a single argument.
The output from "nroff" and "groff" is unchanged, except for
1) '.' printed in regular style in the file "address_families.7"
2) '...' printed in regular style in the file "bootparam.7".
Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man7/address_families.7 | 6 +++---
man7/aio.7 | 2 +-
man7/attributes.7 | 4 ++--
man7/bootparam.7 | 12 ++++++------
4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man7/address_families.7 b/man7/address_families.7
index 93fb1e60e..49b7d0172 100644
--- a/man7/address_families.7
+++ b/man7/address_families.7
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol (since Linux 2.6.30).
RDS over RDMA has no relation to
.B AF_SMC
or
-.BR AF_XDP.
+.BR AF_XDP .
For further information see
.\" rds-tools: https://github.com/oracle/rds-tools/blob/master/rds.7
.\" rds-tools: https://github.com/oracle/rds-tools/blob/master/rds-rdma.7
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Logical link control (IEEE 802.2 LLC) protocol, upper part
of data link layer of ISO/OSI networking protocol stack
(since Linux 2.4);
has no relation to
-.BR AF_PACKET.
+.BR AF_PACKET .
See chapter
.I 13.5.3. Logical Link Control
in
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ for hypervisor-guest interaction (since Linux 2.6.21);
has no relation to
.B AF_VSOCK
and/or
-.BR AF_SMC
+.B AF_SMC
See
.UR https://www.ibm.com\:/support\:/knowledgecenter\:/en/SSB27U_6.4.0\:/com.ibm.zvm.v640.hcpb4\:/iucv.htm
.I IUCV protocol overview
diff --git a/man7/aio.7 b/man7/aio.7
index df26117e3..170e92b42 100644
--- a/man7/aio.7
+++ b/man7/aio.7
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ This field is ignored for file synchronization operations.
This field is a structure that specifies how the caller is
to be notified when the asynchronous I/O operation completes.
Possible values for
-.IR aio_sigevent.sigev_notify
+.I aio_sigevent.sigev_notify
are
.BR SIGEV_NONE ,
.BR SIGEV_SIGNAL ,
diff --git a/man7/attributes.7 b/man7/attributes.7
index 52bea817b..4c20c0919 100644
--- a/man7/attributes.7
+++ b/man7/attributes.7
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ safe for inlining.
.\" environment cannot be performed atomically then it is also possible that
.\" the environment encountered is internally inconsistent.
.TP
-.IR MT-Unsafe \" ", " AS-Unsafe ", " AC-Unsafe
-.IR MT-Unsafe \" ", " AS-Unsafe ", " AC-Unsafe
+.I MT-Unsafe \" ", " AS-Unsafe ", " AC-Unsafe
+.I MT-Unsafe \" ", " AS-Unsafe ", " AC-Unsafe
functions are not safe to call in a multithreaded programs.
.\" functions are not
.\" safe to call within the safety contexts described above.
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index 9f695129a..48a7d047c 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -153,16 +153,16 @@ possible root devices in major/minor format is also accepted.
is major 8, minor 3, so you could use 'root=0x803' as an
alternative.)
.TP
-.BR "'rootdelay='"
+.B 'rootdelay='
This parameter sets the delay (in seconds) to pause before attempting
to mount the root filesystem.
.TP
-.BR "'rootflags=...'"
+.BR 'rootflags= ... '
This parameter sets the mount option string for the root filesystem
(see also
.BR fstab (5)).
.TP
-.BR "'rootfstype=...'"
+.BR 'rootfstype= ... '
The 'rootfstype' option tells the kernel to mount the root filesystem as
if it where of the type specified.
This can be useful (for example) to
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ This boot argument will cause the kernel to also
print messages logged at level
.BR KERN_DEBUG .
The console loglevel can also be set on a booted system via the
-.IR /proc/sys/kernel/printk
+.I /proc/sys/kernel/printk
file (described in
.BR syslog (2)),
the
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ a 'ramdisk=N' parameter to tell its size.
These days ram disks use the buffer cache, and grow dynamically.
For a lot of information on the current ramdisk
setup, see the kernel source file
-.IR Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt
+.I Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt
.RI ( Documentation/ramdisk.txt
in older kernels).
.IP
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ The sound driver can also accept boot arguments to override the compiled-in
values.
This is not recommended, as it is rather complex.
It is described in the Linux kernel source file
-.IR Documentation/sound/oss/README.OSS
+.I Documentation/sound/oss/README.OSS
.RI ( drivers/sound/Readme.linux
in older kernel versions).
It accepts
--
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