On Friday 30 July 2021 01:41:49 Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Branden, > > On 7/30/21 1:04 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2021-07-29T19:23:20+0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > How do you prefer to format this part? \fBB0\fP, ..., \fBB9600\fP > > > > I'd use the B or BR macro to set the literals, depending on whether they > > are directly followed by something that should be in the roman style, > > and I would definitely set the ellipsis in roman; when used as such, > > it should never be set in bold or italics. Use of the ellipsis in *roff > > input requires some care, which is unfortunately often neglected. > > > > .BR B0 , > > \&.\|.\|.\|, > > .B 9600 > > > > (I dithered over inclusion of the thin space escape sequence \| between > > the ellipsis and the comma. I can see arguments either way, and a quick > > Internet search does not suggest to me a strong wind in either > > direction. Since its presence or absence makes no difference for > > terminal output, I expect most writers of man pages won't care.) > > > Thanks again for your input! > Good to know that. Perfect! I will change it in this way. > > Cheers, > > Alex > > > -- > Alejandro Colomar > Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
