Hi, Branden! On 2/27/22 19:57, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi, Alex! > > At 2022-02-27T18:09:51+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>> @@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ Note that older kernels which do not recognize the >>> .BR MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE >>> flag will typically (upon detecting a collision with a preexisting mapping) >>> fall back to a "non-\c >>> -.B MAP_FIXED\c >>> -" type of behavior: >> >> Branden, why is that? Is a leading '"' special here? > > Nope. I think you correctly surmised what the original input was doing. Then, should I report a bug in groff? I could reproduce the incorrect formatted output with GNU groff version 1.23.0.rc1.1931-35c9b > >>> +.BR MAP_FIXED "\(dq type of behavior:" >> >> I'll apply a slightly simpler patch (removing \c): > [...] >> -fall back to a "non-\c >> -.B MAP_FIXED\c >> -" type of behavior: >> +fall back to a >> +.RB \(dqnon- MAP_FIXED \(dq >> +type of behavior: > > This is indeed an improvement. your change should make no _visible_ > change to the rendered document. > > I wouldn't use \(dq, though--these quotation marks are for prose, not > code. I would use left and right double quotation marks. > > fall back to a > .RB \(lqnon- MAP_FIXED \(rq > type of behavior: Okay, I'll fix that. Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
