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| author | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2021-08-02 11:41:50 +1000 |
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| committer | G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | 2021-08-02 18:44:56 +1000 |
| commit | b99a932de5e8a4653b936541190da9307da7600c (patch) | |
| tree | b6b56b034347db6c44b3fb0fc46674f980c5a9e4 /contrib/gperl | |
| parent | 26a17ce51f202bb3ef817d1d23c9111851bce5bd (diff) | |
| download | groff-git-b99a932de5e8a4653b936541190da9307da7600c.tar.gz | |
[man pages]: Improve ellipsis usage in synopses.
* Use non-breaking adjustable space escape sequence \~. This groff
extension is widely supported[1].
* "Bind" this escape sequence to adjacent roman, not italic, text. It
doesn't make a difference as far as I know; this is purely for
consistency.
* Use non-printing input break escape sequence \& only where necessary.
* Rename metasyntactic operand from "input-file" to "file".
* Mark optional file operands with brackets where they were missing; if
given none, these commands will happily read from the standard input.
[1] See thread beginning at <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/\
20210729115508.pt6btsqd7g5tuhg6@localhost.localdomain/>.
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/gperl')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man b/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man index a417fd44b..72767adde 100644 --- a/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man +++ b/contrib/gperl/gperl.1.man @@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ gperl \- execute Perl commands in groff documents .\" ==================================================================== . .SY gperl -.RI [ file -\&.\|.\|.] +.RI [ file\~ .\|.\|.] .YS . . |