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


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