From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 10 23:51:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA25575 for current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:51:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA25568 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 23:51:15 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA23221; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 07:51:10 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA20460; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 07:51:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA07646; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 07:50:23 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510110650.HAA07646@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: docs/776: j0 man page fixes. To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 07:50:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510102137.HAA06373@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 11, 95 07:37:56 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 651 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > [old version] > >! .Em Bessel function of the first kind of the order > > `.Em'; seems to need quoting: > > .Em "Bessel function of the first kind of the order" > > seems to work OK. .Em Bessel function of the first .Em kind of the order should also work. Quoting is not always guaranteed to work. The problem is that the number of args for the Em macro exceeded 8. > I couldn't find any online docs for the man macros. Are there any? mdoc.samples(7) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)