On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:20:39AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > I'm writing you because of Bug#368996 in which the reporter
> > claims that when you use the .SH macro and the parameter
> > contains a space character it should be quoted. Is this true?
>
> To the best of my knowledge, this is not the case. See groff_man(7),
> which says:
>
> .SH [text for a heading]
> Sets up an unnumbered section heading sticking out to
> the left. Prints out all the text following SH up to
> the end of the line (resp. the text in the next input
> line if there is no argument to SH) in bold face, one
> size larger than the base document size. Additionally,
> the left margin for the following text is reset to its
> default value.
I'm reading man.7:
If the name contains spaces and appears on the same line as .SH,
then place the heading in double quotes.
> Looking at the suggested patch, I notice that flock(2) has a stray "
> after SEE ALSO,
This is fixed in 2.34-1 or earlier.
> and the trailing spaces after NAME and DESCRIPTION in setnetgrent(3) should
> be dropped rather than quoted. Nothing else in the patch is necessary.
Indeed; Michael, innetgr is also affected (and considerably more have
some space at the end, but I can't think now about which can{,'t} be
dropped).
Justin
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