Re: Man page formatting quirk

2025-03-15 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:16:44 -0700 Hal Murray via devel wrote: > I added a few RFCs to the ntpd man page. > > The code looks like this: > RFC 8915:: ^^ Starts a list. RGDS GARY --- Gary E. Miller Rellim

Re: Man page formatting quirk

2025-03-15 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:45:14 -0700 Hal Murray wrote: > >> RFC 8915:: > > ^^ > > Starts a list. > > Most of the others that also use :: come out looking OK. That does not make them correct. > The next > line on them starts with "David" instead of "D." and they don't get >

Re: Man page formatting quirk

2025-03-14 Thread Hal Murray via devel
g...@rellim.com said: > https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/lists/ordered/#styles > Very fiddly stuff. Thanks. That was exactly what I was looking for. It said to put a {empty} after the dot. That works for both man page and html. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. __

Fwd: Re: Man page formatting quirk

2025-03-14 Thread James Browning via devel
-30--- Forwarded message --From: James Browning Date: Mar 14, 2025 15:59Subject: Re: Man page formatting quirkTo: Hal Murray Cc: Inconvenient.On Mar 14, 2025 15:16, Hal Murray via devel wrote: I  a few RFCs to the ntpd man page. The code looks like this: RFC 8915::   D. Fra

Re: Man page formatting quirk

2025-03-14 Thread Hal Murray via devel
>> RFC 8915:: > ^^ > Starts a list. Most of the others that also use :: come out looking OK. The next line on them starts with "David" instead of "D." and they don't get the "1" in front of the line of text. I was wrong about the web page being OK. It changes the D. to A. and inden

Man page formatting quirk

2025-03-14 Thread Hal Murray via devel
I added a few RFCs to the ntpd man page. The code looks like this: RFC 8915:: D. Franke and D. Sibold and K. Teichel and M. Dansarie and R. Sundblad _Network Time Security for the Network Time Protocol_, RFC 8915 That turns into this: RFC 8915 1. Franke and D. Sibold and