Re: [PATCH 16/23] man-pages.7: wfix

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Hello Branden and Alex,

On 8/8/21 10:41 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Saw this while preparing the "switch to \~" change Alex invited.
> 
> Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  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,
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/



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