Use \e for the printable escape character instead of \\ Protect a full stop (.), that begins or ends a string, with \& Inhibit right adjusting for the section "SEE ALSO" with ".na/.ad", or use '.ad l' for the entire manual Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> --- libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3 b/libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3 index 9030345..31a5926 100644 --- a/libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3 +++ b/libuuid/man/uuid_parse.3 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function converts the UUID string given by into the binary representation. The input UUID is a string of the form 1b4e28ba\-2fa1\-11d2\-883f\-b9a761bde3fb (in .BR printf (3) -format "%08x\-%04x\-%04x\-%04x\-%012x", 36 bytes plus the trailing '\\0'). +format "%08x\-%04x\-%04x\-%04x\-%012x", 36 bytes plus the trailing '\e0'). .SH RETURN VALUE Upon successfully parsing the input string, 0 is returned, and the UUID is stored in the location pointed to by @@ -55,11 +55,12 @@ otherwise \-1 is returned. .SH "CONFORMING TO" OSF DCE 1.1 .SH AUTHOR -Theodore Y. Ts'o +Theodore Y.\& Ts'o .SH AVAILABILITY .B libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. +.na .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR uuid (3), .BR uuid_clear (3), @@ -69,3 +70,4 @@ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. .BR uuid_is_null (3), .BR uuid_time (3), .BR uuid_unparse (3) +.ad -- 1.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html