Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:00:49 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/70506: re_format(7) contains many extra '=' Message-ID: <200408171200.i7HC0n0b012980@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/70506; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
To: Marian Cerny <jojo@matfyz.cz>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/70506: re_format(7) contains many extra '='
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:51:15 +0300
On 2004-08-16 01:30, Marian Cerny <jojo@matfyz.cz> wrote:
> The manual page for re_format(7) contains many extra equal signs ('=').
Note that these are not really "extra" in the sense that they're
unnecessary. When the manpage is formatted for text output, it's easy
to miss that this is some special character. If you look at the
Postscript formatted version of the manpage:
$ man -t re_format > re_format.ps
$ gv re_format.ps
you'll easily notice that this special character is a double-dagger.
The first paragraph of the manpage includes this text too:
`=' marks decisions on these aspects that may not be fully
portable to other IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') implementations.
Therefore, I don't these characters should be removed.
- Giorgos
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