Hi Mario,

On Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 02:56:18PM +0200, Mario Blättermann wrote:

Yes, maybe a bug in po4a… Currently, the line break after ".BR login
(1)" obviously causes the double space. Without further digging into
the Po4a sources, I found a workaround for this. See the attached
patch. But it is based on the Git repo of manpages-l10n, so it cannot
be applied directly. It's quite simple; you'll see what I mean.

-are displayed by
-.BR login (1)
-after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell.
+are displayed by \fBlogin\fP(1) after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell.

Yup, I see what you mean.  However, I certainly dislike that approach.
I've done a lot of work removing that kind of pattern in existing manual
pages, and don't want to reintroduce it.  Please fix po4a instead.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

P.S.:  Sorry; no time to PGP-sign this email.

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