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Content-Language: en-US From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" To: "G. Branden Robinson" Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org References: <20210731034458.6s76okhgjxw42mpx@localhost.localdomain> <20210801101221.poigrttumltcdenl@localhost.localdomain> <5e11d17e-d3d0-8b88-dd1b-209a4b136e51@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5e11d17e-d3d0-8b88-dd1b-209a4b136e51@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi, Branden! Ping^2 On 10/17/21 21:53, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > On 8/1/21 12:12 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> Hi, Alex! >> >> At 2021-07-31T13:42:08+0200, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: >>> On 7/31/21 5:45 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >>>> * Advise usage of \~ escape instead of \SPACE; the former, a groff >>>>     extension from circa 1990, has been supported by Heirloom >>>>     Doctools troff since 2005 and by mandoc since 2019.  The >>>>     advantage is that \~ is an _adjustable_ non-breaking space, so it >>>>     will typeset non-jarringly both in .EX/.EE examples when filling >>>>     is off, and in normal running text (which is filled). >>> >>> Thanks for the patch! >> >> You're welcome!  I've found no use cases for "\ " in man pages.  \~ is >> almost always what is desired. >> >>>> * Say "non-breaking" instead of "nonbreaking".  These are the only >>>>     occurrences of either in the man-pages tree, except in >>>>     Changes.old, which uses "non-breaking". >>> >>> I'll do as usual and copy here an extract from man-pages(7) :) : >>> >>>     Hyphenation with multi, non, pre, re, sub, and so on >> >> Ahhh, ha.  Yes.  This is an impedance mismatch between the house styles >> of the Linux man-pages and groff, at least as applied specifically to >> the word "non-?breaking", which sees frequent use in discussions of >> typesetting. > >>> BTW, this one also doesn't apply.  I think it is probably your mailer. >>> Can you use git-send-email(1)? >> >> Apparently not.  :( >> >> $ git send-email >> git: 'send-email' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. >> $ git --help -a | grep send >>     imap-send            Send a collection of patches from stdin to an >> IMAP folder >>     send-email           Send a collection of patches as emails >>     send-pack            Push objects over Git protocol to another >> repository >> >> I did a web search and did not find any reports that NeoMutt does >> violence to Git-formatted patches.  Perhaps it is GMail's fault?  (I use >> its SMPTS server to send mail.)  Does someone on this list have >> experience with this MUA and/or provider?  Is there a trick? >> >> This would explain my Michael despaired of my patch submissions even >> when I kept their scopes under control. >> >> Regards, >> Branden >> -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/