Re: Errors in man pages, here: signal.2

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Hello Michael,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 03:46:23AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 7/27/21 9:03 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > * Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>, 2021-07-25, 23:02:
> >>> Man page: signal.2
> >>> Issue: Such paragraphs shouldn't be no-wrap
> >>>
> >>> "B<WARNING>:\n"
> >>> " the behavior of\n"
> >>> "B<signal>()\n"
> >>> "varies across UNIX versions,\n"
> >>> "and has also varied historically across different versions of Linux.\n"
> >>> "B<Avoid its use>: use\n"
> >>> "B<sigaction>(2)\n"
> >>> "instead.\n"
> >>> "See I<Portability> below.\n"
> >>
> >> I don't understand this report, and can't see a problem. Please 
> >> elaborate.
> > 
> > I think the problem is that the spurious space before "the behavior" is 
> > confusing po4a.
> 
> Thanks, Jakub. I fixed that.

Thanks for fixing.

I'm not sure if this is the cause, but there are lots of forced line
breaks ("the \n") in this paragraph, which is quite unusual.

I look at the next version on this again, and might come back, but for
now consider this one fixed.

Greetings

            Helge

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