From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D992C433E7 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34692224D for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="pKB49sqS" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726124AbgJSRkN (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:40:13 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:43648 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725952AbgJSRkN (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:40:13 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-x341.google.com (mail-wm1-x341.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::341]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39B7CC0613CE for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm1-x341.google.com with SMTP id 13so349975wmf.0 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:40:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aCPyec/RkNv0cYoFuRd/oYbc8R+XWTF5Ds+EA4qULig=; b=pKB49sqSaOLeiMpGOMJvP4jTn+ByG4RBggplXriHmhFPK5fo1ael3dKhS4xZiqgoOD uK9+a5Gzqr5u/eVMwqUYysngrRzVZ7iBENlWybSuRDJT3AZ4aYZkYl3XAiYGqUCRjM5M ZTyMwABPV0vL+QJuw1g3hnqD1BSHMp7OSKoo9qmAOET9tkBD+SXeZvQldulKLm5bThZU 2aMqWWAlCmV+cys9Hj8V3kUDdQ3yY3PzDtTkvx/IxOCKzxbButdmrg1Sptf3zARoZV1B sLUEegjWhPgQRs9lJI8cFbs0cmW/NqGKR6nGU+dFCqdGgvME9I7xI14TZaUrgHPDTHaz 1vsg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=aCPyec/RkNv0cYoFuRd/oYbc8R+XWTF5Ds+EA4qULig=; b=M6pkHaM5SrX/f1QTiYZ3NypPBTtx0TuwEHk3WfzXvgqSiCBLB1OgvSTew9pY7TeV9c bbwNU+yzt4Ifp/sO5F3qhgvXoj/z4fnDlyCPqwFFxxiobuc5UhozQhYJ58Bxat1YkTJO xk9rkEqfyl+7Q7PEmEtniOCO1IBGbF/ZO+z2ImOBmcKdpuh3EA8IjgTO/Acr92H2rMkp 1RXEzhP1PwcXn3HBRacgq+yQMhT2q6DBbCWWcPwWITIlTvX8LGS5Qq3UFtxc7eqwa7yz +4JWsZ91lH7yuxMZRJqr1p+J75uJffBuqvSzxxHaFcUvUYkhnWXOcMsgSfDAoUJ61bEe KCAA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM532s090gm9aWH6ppISNYtEHZRraeMzpeSwYTvp7f+rNHHUE/BlUS vSpK/Lt6JkrFZUa9Rx8WwK8OYuV7WWw= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwJfbo59qqR2epwadZHMuqZ1Z8fw9KpWtP9Q+uqUzijsP9bLMPasowUA5OeBu/ElV1LPqhF4Q== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:740e:: with SMTP id p14mr403792wmc.34.1603129211965; Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.143] ([170.253.60.68]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a15sm502162wrp.90.2020.10.19.10.40.10 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: \- vs - (Was [Re: [PATCH 2/3] system_data_types.7: Add 'clock_t']) To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <20201017213758.9270-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> <20201017213758.9270-2-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> From: Alejandro Colomar Message-ID: <706d3eea-60f8-c208-0cd4-3412ebfef263@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:40:09 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 2020-10-18 07:56, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On 10/17/20 11:37 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar >> --- >> >> Hi Michael, >> >> Does that dash (in "real-floating") need to be escaped? > > No. > >> In my terminal I see it correctly, >> but I've seen you escaping some of them and don't know the reason why. > > See man-pages(7): > > Real minus character > Where a real minus character is required (e.g., for numbers such > as -1, for man page cross references such as utf-8(7), or when > writing options that have a leading dash, such as in ls -l), use > the following form in the man page source: > > \- > > This guideline applies also to code examples. > > The point is that a real-minux sign is needed to that code snippets > can be cut and pasted. > >> Should they be escaped always, or is it only sometimes, and when? > > In normal text, no escape is needed. Hi Michael, Then, in the following code (taken from printf.3) the escape is wrong (unneeded) by those guidelines?: [[ .SH NAME printf, fprintf, dprintf, sprintf, snprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, vdprintf, vsprintf, vsnprintf \- formatted output conversion ]] Thanks, Alex