Re: [PATCH] man1/*: srcfix: remove superfluous quotes around space-free arguments

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Bjarni,

On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 15:25, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is> wrote:
>
>   Remove quotes around a space-free argument for the single-font macros.

Your commit message doesn't explain why this patch/this series is
useful. Please explain.

Thanks,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
> ---
>  man1/getent.1    |  2 +-
>  man1/iconv.1     |  6 +++---
>  man1/intro.1     |  2 +-
>  man1/localedef.1 |  2 +-
>  man1/time.1      | 10 +++++-----
>  5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man1/getent.1 b/man1/getent.1
> index 8f89a933b..5b6b9265a 100644
> --- a/man1/getent.1
> +++ b/man1/getent.1
> @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ Disables IDN encoding in lookups for
>  .BR \-? ", " \-\-help
>  Print a usage summary and exit.
>  .TP
> -.B "\-\-usage"
> +.B \-\-usage
>  Print a short usage summary and exit.
>  .TP
>  .BR \-V ", " \-\-version
> diff --git a/man1/iconv.1 b/man1/iconv.1
> index 3649e6dbe..6b728ead1 100644
> --- a/man1/iconv.1
> +++ b/man1/iconv.1
> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ transliterated are replaced with a question mark (?) in the output.
>  .BR \-l ", " \-\-list
>  List all known character set encodings.
>  .TP
> -.B "\-c"
> +.B \-c
>  Silently discard characters that cannot be converted instead of
>  terminating when encountering such characters.
>  .TP
> @@ -98,14 +98,14 @@ for output.
>  .BR \-s ", " \-\-silent
>  This option is ignored; it is provided only for compatibility.
>  .TP
> -.B "\-\-verbose"
> +.B \-\-verbose
>  Print progress information on standard error when processing
>  multiple files.
>  .TP
>  .BR \-? ", " \-\-help
>  Print a usage summary and exit.
>  .TP
> -.B "\-\-usage"
> +.B \-\-usage
>  Print a short usage summary and exit.
>  .TP
>  .BR \-V ", " \-\-version
> diff --git a/man1/intro.1 b/man1/intro.1
> index 63fcf5dea..dbef34622 100644
> --- a/man1/intro.1
> +++ b/man1/intro.1
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Here it finds Maja's telephone number.
>  .SS Pathnames and the current directory
>  Files live in a large tree, the file hierarchy.
>  Each has a
> -.I "pathname"
> +.I pathname
>  describing the path from the root of the tree (which is called
>  .IR / )
>  to the file.
> diff --git a/man1/localedef.1 b/man1/localedef.1
> index dcd4ff90d..552b126f7 100644
> --- a/man1/localedef.1
> +++ b/man1/localedef.1
> @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Print a usage summary and exit.
>  Also prints the default paths used by
>  .BR localedef .
>  .TP
> -.B "\-\-usage"
> +.B \-\-usage
>  Print a short usage summary and exit.
>  .TP
>  .BR \-V ", " \-\-version
> diff --git a/man1/time.1 b/man1/time.1
> index f274aa9d8..476359c6c 100644
> --- a/man1/time.1
> +++ b/man1/time.1
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ All of those used by
>  .BR tcsh (1)
>  are supported.
>  .PP
> -.B "Time"
> +.B Time
>  .TP
>  .B %E
>  Elapsed real time (in [hours:]minutes:seconds).
> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Total number of CPU-seconds that the process spent in user mode.
>  .B %P
>  Percentage of the CPU that this job got, computed as (%U + %S) / %E.
>  .PP
> -.B "Memory"
> +.B Memory
>  .TP
>  .B %M
>  Maximum resident set size of the process during its lifetime, in Kbytes.
> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ Number of times the process was context-switched involuntarily
>  Number of waits: times that the program was context-switched voluntarily,
>  for instance while waiting for an I/O operation to complete.
>  .PP
> -.B "I/O"
> +.B I/O
>  .TP
>  .B %I
>  Number of filesystem inputs by the process.
> @@ -262,13 +262,13 @@ is terminated by a signal) or nonzero exit status.
>  .\"
>  .SS GNU standard options
>  .TP
> -.B "\-\-help"
> +.B \-\-help
>  Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
>  .TP
>  .B "\-V, \-\-version"
>  Print version information on standard output, then exit successfully.
>  .TP
> -.B "\-\-"
> +.B \-\-
>  Terminate option list.
>  .SH BUGS
>  Not all resources are measured by all versions of UNIX,
> --
> 2.27.0



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