Re: [PATCH] man3/a-z.3: srcfix: print punctuation marks with a regular style

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Hello Bharni,

On 2/3/19 5:27 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>   Print punctuation marks (",.) with a regular style.

I'm not sure that I consider the changes here are needed.
Why do you think they are?

Thanks,

Michael

>   The output from "nroff" and "groff" is unchanged, except for the style
> changes of some punctuation marks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  man3/isalpha.3   | 4 ++--
>  man3/setlocale.3 | 6 +++---
>  man3/toupper.3   | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/isalpha.3 b/man3/isalpha.3
> index 03fb1d53d..a620c6bf0 100644
> --- a/man3/isalpha.3
> +++ b/man3/isalpha.3
> @@ -194,9 +194,9 @@ alphanumeric character.
>  .BR isspace ()
>  checks for white-space characters.
>  In the
> -.B """C"""
> +.RB """" C """"
>  and
> -.B """POSIX"""
> +.RB """" POSIX """"
>  locales, these are: space, form-feed
>  .RB ( \(aq\ef\(aq ),
>  newline
> diff --git a/man3/setlocale.3 b/man3/setlocale.3
> index fdfb21202..a913bc663 100644
> --- a/man3/setlocale.3
> +++ b/man3/setlocale.3
> @@ -114,9 +114,9 @@ is unchanged, and
>  returns NULL.
>  .PP
>  The locale
> -.B """C"""
> +.RB """" C """"
>  or
> -.B """POSIX"""
> +.RB """" POSIX """"
>  is a portable locale;
>  it exists on all conforming systems.
>  .PP
> @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ If
>  is NULL, the current locale is only queried, not modified.
>  .PP
>  On startup of the main program, the portable
> -.B """C"""
> +.RB """" C """"
>  locale is selected as default.
>  A program may be made portable to all locales by calling:
>  .PP
> diff --git a/man3/toupper.3 b/man3/toupper.3
> index f036acf8c..ce629e77c 100644
> --- a/man3/toupper.3
> +++ b/man3/toupper.3
> @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ yielding a value that is outside the range of
>  The details of what constitutes an uppercase or lowercase letter depend
>  on the locale.
>  For example, the default
> -.B """C"""
> +.RB """" C """"
>  locale does not know about umlauts, so no conversion is done for them.
>  .PP
>  In some non-English locales, there are lowercase letters with no
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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