Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 4 authors, 2021-08-17

Re: Errors in man pages, here: signal.2

From: Helge Kreutzmann <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-17 13:41:49

Hello Michael,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 03:46:23AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
On 7/27/21 9:03 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
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* Michael Kerrisk [off-list ref], 2021-07-25, 23:02:
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Man page: signal.2
Issue: Such paragraphs shouldn't be no-wrap

"B<WARNING>:\n"
" the behavior of\n"
"B<signal>()\n"
"varies across UNIX versions,\n"
"and has also varied historically across different versions of Linux.\n"
"B<Avoid its use>: use\n"
"B<sigaction>(2)\n"
"instead.\n"
"See I<Portability> below.\n"
I don't understand this report, and can't see a problem. Please 
elaborate.
I think the problem is that the spurious space before "the behavior" is 
confusing po4a.
Thanks, Jakub. I fixed that.
Thanks for fixing.

I'm not sure if this is the cause, but there are lots of forced line
breaks ("the \n") in this paragraph, which is quite unusual.

I look at the next version on this again, and might come back, but for
now consider this one fixed.

Greetings

            Helge

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