On 2023-07-28 20:00, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Clean up in preparation for "MR sed". > > From 225f59d4bd93db69d499cfd546ebef62fc6a63cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:02:49 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH 4/6] time.1: ffix > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Mark up ellipses properly. They should be in roman. The item preceding > an ellipsis should be in the singular. Use unbreakable space between > metasyntactic variable and subsequent ellipsis. > > Quoting groff_man_style(7): > > • Symbols that are neither to be typed literally nor replaced at the > user’s discretion appear in the roman style; brackets surround > optional arguments, and an ellipsis indicates that the previous > syntactical element may be repeated arbitrarily. > [...] > • The dummy character escape sequence \& follows the ellipsis when > further text will follow after space on the output line, keeping > its last period from being interpreted as the end of a sentence > and causing additional inter‐sentence space to be placed after it. > [...] > > Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man1/time.1 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man1/time.1 b/man1/time.1 > index efb818cfd..8902b4b96 100644 > --- a/man1/time.1 > +++ b/man1/time.1 > @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .SH NAME > time \- time a simple command or give resource usage > .SH SYNOPSIS > .B time > -.RI [ options ] " command " [ arguments... ] > +.RI [ option \~.\|.\|.\&] " command " [ argument \~.\|.\|.] Please document the reason why \| should be used. Cheers, Alex > .SH DESCRIPTION > The > .B time -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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