Re: [patch], ptrace(2): Unnecessary escape before ">"

Bjarni,

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 08:51:41AM +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

quoted

Bjarni,

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Package: man-pages
Version: 3.40
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

 From "groff -ww ..." (or "man --warnings=w ...":

<standard input>:758: warning: escape character ignored before `>'

 Also periods (full stop) in ellipises "protected" with "\&".

My knowledge here is a bit thin. Can you expand on the previous sentence please.

 This "protection" is actually only necessary, if the
(unprotected) ellipsis is at the start (becomes a groff macro
command) or (almost) at end of a line (last period interpreted as
an end of a sentence).  That can happen, if the paragraph (line)
gets later reformatted or changed in the source.

Ahh -- okay. It's not currently broken then, so I'll leave as is, but
I will apply the fix to  "\>>".

Thanks,

Michael


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