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Re: Buggy formatting in gawk.1 man page


From: Aharon Robbins
Subject: Re: Buggy formatting in gawk.1 man page
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:40:11 +0300

> From: Tommi Vainikainen <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
Hi. THANK YOU for this bug report. I had noticed this problem but didn't
know why it was happening.  It turns out to be enough to remove the .PD 0
to get the correct formatting and visual effect that I want.  I will
get this into the CVS.

Thanks!

Arnold

> Subject: Buggy formatting in gawk.1 man page
> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 19:44:36 +0300
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-="
> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2)
>
> --=-=-=
>
> Hi,
>
> manual page gawk.1 contains incorrect formatting codes. After saying
> "--   Signal the end of options" groff formatting codes cause each
> paragraph to be without empty line as paragraph separators.
>
> Here is a patch to fix this:
>
>
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: text/x-diff
> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=gawk.1.patch
>
> --- doc/gawk.1.orig   2009-05-28 19:32:20.000000000 +0300
> +++ doc/gawk.1        2009-05-28 19:39:10.000000000 +0300
> @@ -491,8 +491,8 @@
>  .IR "GNU Coding Standards" ,
>  these options cause an immediate, successful exit.)
>  .TP
> -.PD 0
>  .B \-\^\-
> +.br
>  Signal the end of options. This is useful to allow further arguments to the
>  \*(AK program itself to start with a \*(lq\-\*(rq.
>  This provides consistency with the argument parsing convention used
>
> --=-=-=
>
>
> -- 
> Tommi Vainikainen




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