Hello Bjarni, On Sat, May 3, 2014, at 4:32, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Add a space character in front of an ellipsis Hmm. I find it clearer when the ellipsis is glued to the thing that it applies to. But, as a space before it seems to be the accepted convention, okay. However, it would be nice if you could make thematic patches: one patch for each type of change. For example, one big patch for *all* man pages (in util-linux) that makes this space-before- ellipsis change, then one big patch for no-minus-within-options, and so on. (A strange effect of this ellipsis is that between the following pair of "] [" brackets there will be a double space instead of a single one. Do you see this too? An if so, would this be a bug or intentional?) > A minus is not used in words. People using UTF-8 and copy-and-paste > can(?) (may?) use "info", "man --ascii" No, you cannot require/suggest that people (if they want to copy and paste from the man-page output) use 'info' instead of 'man', or use an extra option. Commands in the output of plain 'man' should be copy- and-pastable. People who want to actually print a manual page may be required to use extra options to get the typesetting right. But for me, on a terminal in a UTF-8 locale, it makes no difference whether a man page contains \-\-long-option or --long-option, all those dashes render to 0x2d. So copy-and-paste will work fine. By the way, what do you use to look at a typeset version of a man page? For the first time in my life I've looked at a virtual printout with 'man -Tps login-utils/last.1 >last.ps; evince last.ps', and I must say that I find the rendering of --long-option more readable than of \-\-long-option. But as I won't ever use this, either way is fine with me. > -.RI [ username ...] > -.RI [ tty ...] > +.RI [ username " ...] > +.RI [ tty " ...] Hm. An unpaired quotation mark I find ugly. Better do "username " or " ...]" instead. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- 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
