Re: [PATCH] termios.3: Use bold style for Bnn and EXTn macro constants - Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)

From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] termios.3: Use bold style for Bnn and EXTn macro constants
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 01:41:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <304b7610-a399-3275-755e-5648bfb941f2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210729230421.lm65cjomqx6rezzl@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Branden,

On 7/30/21 1:04 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2021-07-29T19:23:20+0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
>> How do you prefer to format this part? \fBB0\fP, ..., \fBB9600\fP
> 
> I'd use the B or BR macro to set the literals, depending on whether they
> are directly followed by something that should be in the roman style,
> and I would definitely set the ellipsis in roman; when used as such,
> it should never be set in bold or italics.  Use of the ellipsis in *roff
> input requires some care, which is unfortunately often neglected.
> 
> .BR B0 ,
> \&.\|.\|.\|,
> .B 9600
> 
> (I dithered over inclusion of the thin space escape sequence \| between
> the ellipsis and the comma.  I can see arguments either way, and a quick
> Internet search does not suggest to me a strong wind in either
> direction.  Since its presence or absence makes no difference for
> terminal output, I expect most writers of man pages won't care.)

Thanks again for your input!
Good to know that.

Cheers,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/