svn commit: r262051 - head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool

Bruce Evans brde at optusnet.com.au
Mon Feb 17 15:31:01 UTC 2014


On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Mark Felder wrote:

> Log:
>  Fix formatting.
>
>  "Manpages should start a new sentence on a new line. This makes it easier
>  for translators to track changes." -jhb

This has very little to do with translators.

This makes it possible for man(1) to format the output correctly, at least
for monospaced fonts.

> Modified: head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool/zpool.8
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool/zpool.8	Mon Feb 17 13:19:27 2014	(r262050)
> +++ head/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/cmd/zpool/zpool.8	Mon Feb 17 13:23:49 2014	(r262051)
> @@ -1960,5 +1960,5 @@ implementation of this manual page was i
> The
> .Cm spare
> feature requires a utility to detect zpool degradation and initiate
> -disk replacement within the zpool. FreeBSD does not provide such a
> -utility at this time.
> +disk replacement within the zpool.
> +FreeBSD does not provide such a utility at this time.

Not splitting the line gave a hard-coded the sentence break of 1 space. 
Splitting the line allows man(1) to format with the default number of
spaces.  The default isn't 1.

Bruce


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