Re: groff_man_style.7: Hyperlink macros: \: before or after '#', '?'?

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

On 2/7/22 22:35, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi, Alex!
> 
> At 2022-02-07T19:46:43+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Branden,
>>
>> I see that groff_man_style(7) gives advice on where to break URIs
>> regarding slashes and dots, but not '?' and '#', which are other
>> common symbols on URIs.I see that groff(1) seems to break before, in
>> your manual pages, so I'll follow that practice, but maybe it's good
>> to state it in the manual page too.
> 
> Good idea.  Such advice has the pleasant benefit of, for '?', being
> congruent with our advice regarding '.' (see?  I told you guys Chicago
> was all wrong), and since '?' begins HTTP GETty request parameters, it
> and the URL material after it might well be omitted at the
> copy-and-paster's discretion.

Oh, and another one: '@'.  I've found a lot of them in links to mailing
list archives.


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