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commit 4e45512f523bb9c55d910165d91cc4cc8bfaebb7
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 1 21:54:16 2025 -0600
groff_man_style(7): Add advice re: quotation.
Call out "inline examples" as a case of "brief runs of literal text" for
which one favor quotation (over font style changes).
Prompted by a friendly debate with Alex Colomar in a NeoMutt pull/merge
request.
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4489
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index 271a52460..76f56ef80 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -1883,6 +1883,7 @@ and bold almost never.
.
Brief specimens of literal text,
such as article titles,
+inline examples,
mentions of individual characters or short strings,
and (sub)section headings in man pages,
are suitable objects for quotation;
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