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[groff] 09/27: groff_man_style(7): Add advice re: quotation.


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [groff] 09/27: groff_man_style(7): Add advice re: quotation.
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 01:22:19 -0500 (EST)

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 4e45512f523bb9c55d910165d91cc4cc8bfaebb7
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Jan 1 21:54:16 2025 -0600

    groff_man_style(7): Add advice re: quotation.
    
    Call out "inline examples" as a case of "brief runs of literal text" for
    which one favor quotation (over font style changes).
    
    Prompted by a friendly debate with Alex Colomar in a NeoMutt pull/merge
    request.
    
    https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/pull/4489
---
 tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index 271a52460..76f56ef80 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -1883,6 +1883,7 @@ and bold almost never.
 .
 Brief specimens of literal text,
 such as article titles,
+inline examples,
 mentions of individual characters or short strings,
 and (sub)section headings in man pages,
 are suitable objects for quotation;



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