docs/70506: re_format(7) contains many extra '='

[Giorgos Keramidas]

The following reply was made to PR docs/70506; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at FreeBSD.org>
To: Marian Cerny <jojo at matfyz.cz>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/70506: re_format(7) contains many extra '='
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:51:15 +0300

 On 2004-08-16 01:30, Marian Cerny <jojo at matfyz.cz> wrote:
 > The manual page for re_format(7) contains many extra equal signs ('=').
 
 Note that these are not really "extra" in the sense that they're
 unnecessary.  When the manpage is formatted for text output, it's easy
 to miss that this is some special character.  If you look at the
 Postscript formatted version of the manpage:
 
         $ man -t re_format > re_format.ps
         $ gv re_format.ps
 
 you'll easily notice that this special character is a double-dagger.
 
 The first paragraph of the manpage includes this text too:
 
         `=' marks decisions on these aspects that may not be fully
         portable to other IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') implementations.
 
 Therefore, I don't these characters should be removed.
 
 - Giorgos