On Aug 13 17:30:37, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:05:14PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > Some manpages use one-line descriptions such as > > > > .Nd "VAX console interface" > > > > The double quotes, if I am not mistaken, are unnecessary; > > the diff below removes them throughout the tree. > > (Were these required at some point in the past?) > > > > the double quotes are from the past when groff macros could not handle > more than 9 args. we had to double quote wordy Nd lines.
Thanks for the insight. There seems to be more, in .%T lines and elsewhere; more of these removals later.
