Re: Escaping whitespace

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Hi Alex,

On 1/5/21 10:56 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> While having a look at your latest commits,
> I saw that there's a bit of inconsistency in escaping whitespace
> (existing previous to the commit):
> 
> Sometimes it's [!\ (], and sometimes it's [! (].

Thanks for prodding me about this.

Yes, it's inconsistent. And given the use of .nf/.fi 
around the text blocks, escaping the spaces serves no
purpose. So I made a more radical fix; see commit
5c10d2c5e299011e34adb568737acfc8920fc27c

Thanks,

Michael
> 


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