Hi Christian, Christian Weisgerber wrote on Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 04:04:57PM +0000: > On 2015-02-15, "Ted Unangst" <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote:
>> mandoc already special cases Aq in Mt macros to output plain <brackets>. >> Existing usage suggests that's what people want elsewhere as well. I'm not sure i can absolutely exclude that, but i don't remember having seen convincing use of .Aq without .Mt that needs ASCII <> either. So for now, let's just fix the bad .Aq usage that was found. If good usage needing ASCII <> is found, we can reconsider. >> pf <tables> and <include.h> headers are not math equations either. > I think these manuals should use actual < > instead of the Aq macro. pf.conf(5) should use plain <> for tables. <include.h> should always use .In. > There are related problems in some man pages like pf.conf(5) where > >= is turned into a fancy mathematical sign etc. I wanted to clean > up some of those, but wasn't sure what the correct fix was, failed > to get a straight answer out of schwarze@ and jmc@, and then sort > of forgot... Oops, sorry, that mail fell through the cracks, you just got a late answer. It boils down to "never use \*(Lt \*(Le \*(Gt \*(Ge". Usually, you don't need any \* whatsoever. Yours, Ingo
