svn commit: r366725 - head/lib/geom/eli

Mateusz Piotrowski 0mp at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 26 16:56:18 UTC 2020


Hi Gordon!

On 10/15/20 4:47 PM, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> Hi Mateusz,
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 02:17:45PM +0000, Mateusz Piotrowski wrote:
>> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
>> Date: Thu Oct 15 14:17:45 2020
>> New Revision: 366725
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366725
>>
>> Log:
>>    Fix formatting of SYNOPSIS
>>    
>>    There was an unnecessary newline being added before Nm.
>>    
>>    MFC after:	3 days
>>
>> Modified:
>>    head/lib/geom/eli/geli.8
>>
>> Modified: head/lib/geom/eli/geli.8
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- head/lib/geom/eli/geli.8	Thu Oct 15 13:47:52 2020	(r366724)
>> +++ head/lib/geom/eli/geli.8	Thu Oct 15 14:17:45 2020	(r366725)
>> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>>   .\"
>>   .\" $FreeBSD$
>>   .\"
>> -.Dd July 22, 2020
>> +.Dd October 15, 2020
>>   .Dt GELI 8
>>   .Os
>>   .Sh NAME
>> @@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ to your
>>   geom_eli_load="YES"
>>   .Ed
>>   .Pp
>> -Usage of the
>> -.Nm
>> +.No Usage of the Nm
>>   utility:
>>   .Pp
>>   .Nm
> The formatting of the SYNOPSIS was correct before this change. It's a common practice
> in man pages to use
>
> The
> .Nm
> utility
> ...

Hmm, I think that you are missing one detail here: in SYNOPSIS, the Nm macro is automatically 
printed on a newline, so the fold manual page rendered like this:

```
Usage of the
geli utility:
```

while after the update it's like so:

```
Usage of the geli utility:
```

I think it looks better even though ".No Usage of the Nm" looks quite ugly.

> Your change is looking somewhat strange, since ".No Usage of the Nm" reads like the
> man page would renders "Nm", since it is not used as macro.

After a dot at the beginning of the line, everything that looks like a macro is rendered as a macro, 
so Nm is rendered correctly here.

It could be that I've totally missed the point of your concerns, in which case I'd grateful if you 
could explain the issue once more. Thanks!

>
> A .Dd bump is also not necessary since no user visible changes were made to the man page.

I wasn't sure about bumping but then I thought that an improvement to readability justifies a Dd bump.

Cheers,

Mateusz



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