Hi Alex,

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 18:11, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Michael,

On 1/6/21 1:51 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

quoted

Hi Alex,

On 1/5/21 10:56 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:

quoted

Hi Michael,

While having a look at your latest commits,
I saw that there's a bit of inconsistency in escaping whitespace
(existing previous to the commit):

Sometimes it's [!\ (], and sometimes it's [! (].

Thanks for prodding me about this.

Yes, it's inconsistent. And given the use of .nf/.fi
around the text blocks, escaping the spaces serves no
purpose. So I made a more radical fix; see commit
5c10d2c5e299011e34adb568737acfc8920fc27c

Nice!

After your following commit (422d5327a88fa89394100bafad69b21e50b26399),
I found that there are many such cases.  Just [[grep -rnI '\\ ' man?]]
and you'll see.  Some of them are valid, but a lot of them aren't.

Can you point me at some examples?

Thanks,

Michael
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