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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-09-24 10:23:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-09-24 10:23:07 +0200 |
| commit | 9f8e673e623dc6fbae517885f4161a29e9c24d1d (patch) | |
| tree | 640be3c83321e9a56832c4532bf0b1ba780cfba3 /man7/man.7 | |
| parent | 6c1544c1325437c9d1dc53c73c6c5fe72d3f62b3 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-9f8e673e623dc6fbae517885f4161a29e9c24d1d.tar.gz | |
time.1, atexit.3, bsearch.3, dlopen.3, envz_add.3, errno.3, fmtmsg.3, getgrent_r.3, getline.3, getmntent.3, getnameinfo.3, getpass.3, getpwent_r.3, gets.3, isalpha.3, printf.3, puts.3, recno.3, scandir.3, stdarg.3, sysconf.3, termios.3, wordexp.3, null.4, core.5, dir_colors.5, issue.5, proc.5, termcap.5, utmp.5, ascii.7, cpuset.7, glob.7, man-pages.7, man.7, mdoc.7, mdoc.samples.7, regex.7: Global fix: use \\ rather than \e for literal backslash
Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/man.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/man.7 | 50 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/man7/man.7 b/man7/man.7 index f4d642ba7a..78f9a73194 100644 --- a/man7/man.7 +++ b/man7/man.7 @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ except the tag is included with the command instead of being on the following line). If the tag is too long, the text after the tag will be moved down to the next line (text will not be lost or garbled). -For bulleted lists, use this macro with \e(bu (bullet) or \e(em (em dash) +For bulleted lists, use this macro with \\(bu (bullet) or \\(em (em dash) as the tag, and for numbered lists, use the number or letter followed by a period as the tag; this simplifies translation to other formats. @@ -354,15 +354,15 @@ but used for a subsection inside a section). The .B man package has the following predefined strings: -.IP \e*R +.IP \\*R Registration Symbol: \*R -.IP \e*S +.IP \\*S Change to default font size -.IP \e*(Tm +.IP \\*(Tm Trademark Symbol: \*(Tm -.IP \e*(lq +.IP \\*(lq Left angled double quote: \*(lq -.IP \e*(rq +.IP \\*(rq Right angled double quote: \*(rq .SS "Safe Subset" Although technically @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Avoid using computations; most other tools can't process them. Use simple commands that are easy to translate to other formats. The following troff macros are believed to be safe (though in many cases they will be ignored by translators): -.BR \e" , +.BR \\" , .BR . , .BR ad , .BR bp , @@ -410,26 +410,26 @@ they will be ignored by translators): .BR tr . .PP You may also use many troff escape sequences (those sequences beginning -with \e). +with \\). When you need to include the backslash character as normal text, -use \ee. +use \\\\. Other sequences you may use, where x or xx are any characters and N is any digit, include: -.BR \e' , -.BR \e` , -.BR \e- , -.BR \e. , -.BR \e" , -.BR \e% , -.BR \e*x , -.BR \e*(xx , -.BR \e(xx , -.BR \e$N , -.BR \enx , -.BR \en(xx , -.BR \efx , +.BR \\' , +.BR \\` , +.BR \\- , +.BR \\. , +.BR \\" , +.BR \\% , +.BR \\*x , +.BR \\*(xx , +.BR \\(xx , +.BR \\$N , +.BR \\nx , +.BR \\n(xx , +.BR \\fx , and -.BR \ef(xx . +.BR \\f(xx . Avoid using the escape sequences for drawing graphics. .PP Do not use the optional parameter for @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ Only translations that can be ignored should be used. Font changes .RB ( ft -and the \fB\ef\fP escape sequence) +and the \fB\\f\fP escape sequence) should only have the values 1, 2, 3, 4, R, I, B, P, or CW (the ft command may also have no parameters). .PP @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ file (such as HTML or Docbook). Anything else suggests simple ASCII text (e.g., a "catman" result). .PP -Many man pages begin with \fB\'\e"\fP followed by a +Many man pages begin with \fB\'\\"\fP followed by a space and a list of characters, indicating how the page is to be preprocessed. For portability's sake to non-troff translators we recommend |