At 2022-02-07T22:51:18+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > On 2/7/22 22:35, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi, Alex! > > > > At 2022-02-07T19:46:43+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > >> Hi Branden, > >> > >> I see that groff_man_style(7) gives advice on where to break URIs > >> regarding slashes and dots, but not '?' and '#', which are other > >> common symbols on URIs.I see that groff(1) seems to break before, in > >> your manual pages, so I'll follow that practice, but maybe it's good > >> to state it in the manual page too. > > > > Good idea. Such advice has the pleasant benefit of, for '?', being > > congruent with our advice regarding '.' (see? I told you guys Chicago > > was all wrong), and since '?' begins HTTP GETty request parameters, it > > and the URL material after it might well be omitted at the > > copy-and-paster's discretion. > > Oh, and another one: '@'. I've found a lot of them in links to mailing > list archives.
Yup, good point. To keep things exciting, existing email addresses in groff man pages tend to put the break _after_ the '@'. Well, I say "tend". 59 instances are perfectly consistent, and I can't find any exceptions with "git grep 'MT.*:@' *.man *.man.in". Regards, Branden
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