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([2001:a61:2479:6801:d8fe:4132:9f23:7e8f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 88sm7561868wrl.76.2020.10.01.00.37.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] system_data_types.7: ffix To: Alejandro Colomar , "G. Branden Robinson" References: <836b6d7d-4433-18d0-78aa-542c419c02f2@gmail.com> <20200928090322.2058-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> <20200928130558.4qi6jitfwxg6ccm7@localhost.localdomain> <1fe937db-8874-a8fb-5e65-88b4b15702fe@gmail.com> <20200930104322.6ffed5lw3uqmlzph@localhost.localdomain> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 09:37:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Alex, Branden, On 9/30/20 11:32 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Branden & Michael, > > On 2020-09-30 12:43, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > >> However, if using .br is a big headache, I would rather not use > >> workarounds (as you proposed in an earlier email), > >> and instead just live with the blank line. It's not much of a > >> problem. > > > > Was an actual decision taken on this? I see patches continuing to roll > > in containing this .br-based pattern. I think if the extra line is > > live-withable, it should be lived with (or one of my four proposed > > alternatives could be used :) ), in preference to setting the bad > > example of the "naked" .br requests. > > No decision yet. > We continued with the patch, > considering that we might revert it > or change it to a different approach in the future. Yes. I figure we can easily clean up the inconsistency later. > Actually I thought Michael would have hold the patches until the decision, I didn't want to slow you down,... > but he merged them, and it may be easier this way... > we'll fix it when we decide. Yes. > For me, I can live with the extra blank line. > Michael, what are your thoughts? I can live with it too. [...] > > > > > Regards, > > Branden > > > > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2019-03/msg00047.html > > [2] > https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/blob/7ac9a0e1f5606696dc799b773d5ec70183ca91a3/ps/ps.1 > > > > > I was writing about the different options and testing them, > when by accident I discovered that .RS alone, which I introduced lately, > already fixed the problem we had in the beginning: > .RS forces a line break after the tag > (so .br is actually redundant right now). > > I guess we'll all be happy with just .RS, right? :-} I think so. Cheers, Michael PS Alex, I believe we are at a sync point right now (i.e., I think that I do not have any unprocessed patches from you). Let me know if I'm wrong. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/