Thank you for your prompt reply. I came up with a patch mainly because it synthetically conveys lots of info, but being quite inexperienced in the *roff galaxy I'm glad to see my proposal improved. Best regards, Francesco Sanesi On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 2:13 PM walter harms <wharms@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Am 07.05.2019 13:54, schrieb Francesco Sanesi: > > In awk's POSIX documentation, > > both online at: > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/awk.1p.html > > and in the awk(1p) man page: > > man-pages-posix-2013-a/man1p/awk.1p > > bundled in the archive man-pages-posix-2013-a.tar.xz downloaded from: > > https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-posix/ > > some instances of '~' (tilde) have been rendered as ' " " ' (space - > > double quotes - space - double quotes - space). > > > > Referring to man-pages-posix-2013-a/man1p/awk.1p, these instances are > > fixed in the attached patch. > > It has been created with plain "git diff". Since I was not able to > > find any SCM repository for the POSIX man pages, the commits it refers > > to are obviously not meaningful (I created a local git repository to > > test "git diff" and "git apply"). > > > > The list of fixes has been determined comparing the above documents > > with "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, IEEE Std 1003.1, > > 2013 Edition" at > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2013edition/utilities/awk.html > > > > Thank you for your great job. > > Best regards. > > > > good catch, > but perhaps it is better to use the groff character description: \[ti] > this will avoid possible translations by less then perfect tools. > (see man grof_char). > > > re, > wh > >
