Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:19:44 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/examples/mdoc example.1 example.3 example.4 Message-ID: <20010718121944.B19889@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <5998.995447108@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:05:08AM %2B0200 References: <200107180851.f6I8pas06393@freefall.freebsd.org> <5998.995447108@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:05:08AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:51:36 MST, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > share/examples/mdoc example.1 example.3 example.4 > > Log: > > MFC: remove example of bad sentence breaking style > > This MFC was made a real PITA by recent gratuitous whitespace changes in > the manual domain, which were not merged onto the RELENG_4 branch. > These aren't gratuitous. From the mdoc(7) manpage: : Trailing Blank Space Characters : Troff can be confused by blank space characters at the end of a line. : It is a wise preventive measure to globally remove all blank spaces : from <blank-space><end-of-line> character sequences. Should the need : arise to force a blank character at the end of a line, it may be forced with an : unpaddable space and the `\&' escape character. For example, : `string\ \&'. > Those of you wishing to make changes to manuals in both HEAD and > RELENG_4 are advised to wait until this mess is resolved. > I'm sure these will be MFC'ed soon. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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