[PATCH] remove bogus \/ escapes

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Mon Aug 31 11:57:21 PDT 2015


> From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu at herrb.eu>
> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:26:40 +0200
> 
> From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze at usta.de>
> 
> some X manuals use then escape sequence \/ when they want to render
> a slash.  That's bad because \/ is not a slash but an italic
> correction, never producing any output, having no effect at all in
> terminal output, and only changing spacing in a minor way in typeset
> output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu at herrb.eu>

Reviewed-by: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at openbsd.org>

> ---
>  hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man | 2 +-
>  man/Xserver.man         | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man
> index ddf1358..646a90c 100644
> --- hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man
> +++ hw/xfree86/man/Xorg.man
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ On most platforms, the "Local" connection type is a UNIX-domain socket.
>  On some System V platforms, the "local" connection types also include
>  STREAMS pipes, named pipes, and some other mechanisms.
>  .TP 4
> -.I TCP\/IP
> +.I TCP/IP
>  .B Xorg
>  listens on port
>  .RI 6000+ n ,
> diff --git man/Xserver.man man/Xserver.man
> index ac410cd..1cf242d 100644
> --- man/Xserver.man
> +++ man/Xserver.man
> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ elapse between autorepeat-generated keystrokes).
>  loads keyboard description in \fIfilename\fP on server startup.
>  .SH "NETWORK CONNECTIONS"
>  The X server supports client connections via a platform-dependent subset of
> -the following transport types: TCP\/IP, Unix Domain sockets, DECnet,
> +the following transport types: TCP/IP, Unix Domain sockets, DECnet,
>  and several varieties of SVR4 local connections.  See the DISPLAY
>  NAMES section of the \fIX\fP(__miscmansuffix__) manual page to learn how to
>  specify which transport type clients should try to use.
> -- 
> 2.4.6


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