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From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Cc: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>, jmc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: better spacing for standards
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:10:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB35C55.5000006@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110423230631.GM18756@iris.usta.de>

> i'd like to resolve one gratuitious difference between mandoc and
> groff-1.21:  mandoc breaks lines at some places in the middle of
> standard names where groff doesn't.  This is annoying for automatic
> comparisons because it occurs at many places.
>
> The following slight changes are included to get identical text
> like in groff:
>
>   * "AT&T System V.4 UNIX" ->  "AT&T System\\~V Release\\~4 UNIX"
>   * Add "Amendment 1", "Technical Corrigendum 1" to the 94/95 ISO C variants
>   * "ANSI C" ->  "ANSI\\~C89"

Ingo,

I'm fine with this, but please add some notes in chars.in as to the 
reason why all the funny escapes are in place.

Thanks!

Kristaps
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-23 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-23 23:06 Ingo Schwarze
2011-04-23 23:10 ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
2011-04-23 23:11   ` Kristaps Dzonsons

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