Saw this while preparing the "switch to \~" change Alex invited. --- man7/man-pages.7 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index 6cb805343..3819dfd97 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ makes it easier to write tools that parse man page source files.) .SS Use semantic newlines In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be started on new lines, -and long sentences should split into lines at clause breaks +and long sentences should be split into lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and so on). This convention, sometimes known as "semantic newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of patches, -- 2.20.1
From 73c9edb11ab7d147167268ac1fd5c5e6f81f2374 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 13:30:30 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] man-pages.7: wfix --- man7/man-pages.7 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index 6cb805343..3819dfd97 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ makes it easier to write tools that parse man page source files.) .SS Use semantic newlines In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be started on new lines, -and long sentences should split into lines at clause breaks +and long sentences should be split into lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and so on). This convention, sometimes known as "semantic newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of patches, -- 2.20.1
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