Hi Michael, On 1/6/21 1:51 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > 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 Nice! After your following commit (422d5327a88fa89394100bafad69b21e50b26399), I found that there are many such cases. Just [[grep -rnI '\\ ' man?]] and you'll see. Some of them are valid, but a lot of them aren't. What do you want to do about them? Thanks, Alex > > Thanks, > > Michael >> > > -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/