On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Michael Reed wrote:
> Literal pipe characters are easier to read and there isn't any
> difference in the output for mandoc(1) -Thtml and -Tutf8.
> 
> \*(Ba is still used elsewhere in ksh.1, although I didn't touch
> those as I'm unsure if this change is even wanted.
> 

we are moving from the idea that we should use such constructs to ingo's
assertion (see mandoc_char(7), i think) that we should avoid them. ah,
change!

so please mail a diff to fix this consistently for this page, not just
one place.

jmc

> 
> Index: ksh.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ksh/ksh.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.171
> diff -u -p -r1.171 ksh.1
> --- ksh.1     24 Nov 2015 21:07:31 -0000      1.171
> +++ ksh.1     25 Dec 2015 18:18:51 -0000
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
>  .Bk -words
>  .Op Fl +abCefhiklmnpruvXx
>  .Op Fl +o Ar option
> -.Op Fl c Ar string \*(Ba Fl s \*(Ba Ar file Op Ar argument ...
> +.Op Fl c Ar string | Fl s | Ar file Op Ar argument ...
>  .Ek
>  .Sh DESCRIPTION
>  .Nm
> 

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