From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Nov 8 05:21:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11456 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA11451 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:21:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA09281; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:21:13 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA17226; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:21:13 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981108142112.51250@follo.net> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 14:21:12 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Extra line breaks [was Re: An and Aq macros] References: <86sofw4ly5.fsf@niobe.ewox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C86sofw4ly5=2Efsf=40niobe=2Eewox=2Eorg=3E=3B_from_Dag-E?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?rling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav_on_Fri=2C_Nov_06=2C_1998_at_09=3A?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?15=3A30PM_+0100?= Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 09:15:30PM +0100, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Can any of you doc wizards tell me why the An and Aq macros (used for > authors' names and email addresses in man pages) appear to behave > nondeterministically? Take a look at fetch(3) on FreeBSD-CURRENT; > sometimes a line break is inserted between the name and email address, > and sometimes not. The result is grueling, to say the least. This is not restricted to .An and .Aq. I've had it happen in the middle of lists - never understood why. "Just re-write until it goes away." I have little clue how this stuff works, so I didn't have any solution that was less work... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message