[PATCH xorg-docs] remove bogus \/ escapes

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Mon Aug 31 11:56:38 PDT 2015


> From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu at herrb.eu>
> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:24:13 +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>

> ---
>  man/X.man | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git man/X.man man/X.man
> index 16b4c96..bc9fc1a 100644
> --- man/X.man
> +++ man/X.man
> @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ The hostname part of the display name should be the empty string.
>  For example:  \fI:0\fP, \fI:1\fP, and \fI:0.1\fP.  The most efficient
>  local transport will be chosen.
>  .TP 8
> -.I TCP\/IP
> +.I TCP/IP
>  .br
>  The hostname part of the display name should be the server machine's
>  hostname or IP address.  Full Internet names, abbreviated names, IPv4
> @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ implementation dependent.
>  If the name is not found, the color is looked up in the
>  X server's database.
>  The text form of this database is commonly stored in the file
> -\fI\__datadir__/X11/rgb.txt\fP.
> +\fI__datadir__/X11/rgb.txt\fP.
>  .PP
>  A numerical color specification
>  consists of a color space name and a set of values in the following syntax:
> @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ A wide variety of error messages are generated from various programs.
>  The default error handler in \fIXlib\fP (also used by many toolkits) uses
>  standard resources to construct diagnostic messages when errors occur.  The
>  defaults for these messages are usually stored in
> -\fI\__datadir__/X11/XErrorDB\fP.  If this file is not present,
> +\fI__datadir__/X11/XErrorDB\fP.  If this file is not present,
>  error messages will be rather terse and cryptic.
>  .PP
>  When the X Toolkit Intrinsics encounter errors converting resource strings to
> -- 
> 2.4.6


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