On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:50:56AM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: [...] > This is a substantial amount of the patch (in lines-changed terms). > Is there a technical reason for this?
Yes. In man-pages the technical issue is to have every sentence begin on a new line or (worse) sentences are separated with two spaces. References are: 1) man-pages(7) from package "man-pages" or "www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages" section 7 or "man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/man-pages.7.html: New sentences should be started on new lines. This makes it easier to see the effect of patches, which often operate at the level of individual sentences. [The above is an example of how to write text, making any "subsentence" (subordinate clause) start on its own line.] 2) groff_diff(7) in package "groff": In GNU troff, as in UNIX troff, you should always follow a sentence with either a newline or two spaces. 3) "info groff": Search for "sentence" to get more hints about input conventions. -- Bjarni I. Gislason
