Hi Alex, Branden, On 9/30/20 11:32 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Branden & Michael, > > On 2020-09-30 12:43, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > >> However, if using .br is a big headache, I would rather not use > >> workarounds (as you proposed in an earlier email), > >> and instead just live with the blank line. It's not much of a > >> problem. > > > > Was an actual decision taken on this? I see patches continuing to roll > > in containing this .br-based pattern. I think if the extra line is > > live-withable, it should be lived with (or one of my four proposed > > alternatives could be used :) ), in preference to setting the bad > > example of the "naked" .br requests. > > No decision yet. > We continued with the patch, > considering that we might revert it > or change it to a different approach in the future. Yes. I figure we can easily clean up the inconsistency later. > Actually I thought Michael would have hold the patches until the decision, I didn't want to slow you down,... > but he merged them, and it may be easier this way... > we'll fix it when we decide. Yes. > For me, I can live with the extra blank line. > Michael, what are your thoughts? I can live with it too. [...] > > > > > Regards, > > Branden > > > > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2019-03/msg00047.html > > [2] > https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/blob/7ac9a0e1f5606696dc799b773d5ec70183ca91a3/ps/ps.1 > > > > > I was writing about the different options and testing them, > when by accident I discovered that .RS alone, which I introduced lately, > already fixed the problem we had in the beginning: > .RS forces a line break after the tag > (so .br is actually redundant right now). > > I guess we'll all be happy with just .RS, right? :-} I think so. Cheers, Michael PS Alex, I believe we are at a sync point right now (i.e., I think that I do not have any unprocessed patches from you). Let me know if I'm wrong. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
