On 2020-07-21, at 11:16:00 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2020-07-21 10:31, Jeremy Sowden wrote: > > In roff, lines beginning with a single quote are control lines. In > > the libxt_DNETMAP man-page there is a single-quoted string at the > > beginning of a line, which troff tries and fails to interpret as a > > macro: > > Is there some escaping magic available that would make this work as > well? I would fear that if the next person (me included) comes around > to use an editor's "wrap at 80 cols" feature, that the quote might > re-shift to the start of line. If all else, I'd just pick " over ' - > in the hope that that does not have a special meaning. Good point. I had another look at the documentation and found escape- sequences for opening and closing single quotes. I'll send out a new version of the patch. > > -boot time). Please note that the \fBttl\fR and \fBlasthit\fR entries contain an > > -'\fBS\fR' in case of a static binding. > > +boot time). Please note that the \fBttl\fR and \fBlasthit\fR entries contain > > +an '\fBS\fR' in case of a static binding. J.
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