On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > 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. I'm reading man.7:
If the name contains spaces and appears on the same line as .SH, then place the heading in double quotes. > Looking at the suggested patch, I notice that flock(2) has a stray " > after SEE ALSO, This is fixed in 2.34-1 or earlier. > and the trailing spaces after NAME and DESCRIPTION in setnetgrent(3) should > be dropped rather than quoted. Nothing else in the patch is necessary. Indeed; Michael, innetgr is also affected (and considerably more have some space at the end, but I can't think now about which can{,'t} be dropped). Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]