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.
If you want multiple consecutive literal spaces, or if you want a
literal " character immediately after a space, then you'd need quoting,
but in general you don't need it for .SH.
Looking at the suggested patch, I notice that flock(2) has a stray "
after SEE ALSO, and the trailing spaces after NAME and DESCRIPTION in
setnetgrent(3) should be dropped rather than quoted. Nothing else in the
patch is necessary.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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