On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 12:22:39 -0400, g.branden.robin...@gmail.com wrote: > When a "literal" ASCII 45 hyphen-minus character is desired, it has to > be escaped; this is a requirement going all the way back to Bell Labs > Troff, but is frequently overlooked. Getting it right enables > accurate cut-and-paste of code examples, filenames, URLs, and so forth > from roff documents prepared for UTF-8 terminal and PDF output, possibly > among others. > > See section 2.1 of CSTR #54, "Troff User's Manual", Ossanna & Kernighan > <https://www.troff.org/54.pdf>.
I'm curious why hyphens must be double-escaped (\\) while double-quotes are only escaped once (\)? Also, I see a number of non-escaped hyphens left, if that on purpose or an overlook? 12:Patches can be applied, un-applied, refreshed, etc. 42:sub-directory of the source tree (see EXAMPLE OF WORKING TREE below). 52:directory may contain sub-directories. 64:directory; patches may be in sub-directories below this directory. 104:patches sub-directory is a convenient location. 106:The .pc directory and its sub-directories cannot be relocated, but it 133:The exit status is 0 if the sub-command was successfully executed, and 247:following syntax - colon (:) separated list of elements, each being of 282:Used in 'quilt diff' to color the 15-asterisk sequence before or after a Other than that, looks good, no objection. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list Quilt-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
