Re: Errors in man pages, here: gethostbyname(3): Space/Formatting

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Hello Michael,
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:09:16PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 4/19/20 8:48 AM, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > **
> > 
> > Space between true and (1) and mark up
> > 
> > "The B<sethostent>()  function specifies, if I<stayopen> is true (1), that a "
> > "connected TCP socket should be used for the name server queries and that the "
> > "connection should remain open during successive queries.  Otherwise, name "
> > "server queries will use UDP datagrams."
> 
> I don't understand this report. Can you elaborate please.

We translator understood the "(1)" as the section number for the man
page of true. So actually it should also contain markup, i.e.

true (1) → B<true>(1)

And there is no space between the man page name and the section. If
another meaning was intended, then we translators misunderstood this
sentence completly.

Best regards

           Helge

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