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| author | Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> | 2007-05-08 17:13:44 +1000 |
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| committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2007-05-08 17:13:44 +1000 |
| commit | 7e23fc43c315414254ae6f03ca6ae19d2144caf1 (patch) | |
| tree | abd029a1188270081a0c2aa560271b0e05ab11fb /mdassemble.8 | |
| parent | 53e8b987bd40a52912b84d96b347e1de0d27790f (diff) | |
Hyphens and Other Manpage Typography, 4/4: literal ASCII hyphens.
From: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
nroff formats "-" as the very short hyphen used for hyphenated terms
and for splitting a word across two lines. When you want a literal
ASCII "-", like for typing on a command line, you're supposed to use
"\-" instead.
Yeah, it sounds pedantic, but it actually makes a difference. With
modern Unicode-capable terminals, "man" actually renders these with
different characters, so if you try to search for "--create" in your
favorite pager, you won't find it unless the nroff source says
"\-\-create". This discrepancy doesn't generally show up with
non-Unicode terminals.
Signed-Off-By: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mdassemble.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | mdassemble.8 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mdassemble.8 b/mdassemble.8 index a042df4d..d76e1631 100644 --- a/mdassemble.8 +++ b/mdassemble.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ or Invoking .B mdassemble has the same effect as invoking -.B mdadm --assemble --scan. +.B mdadm \-\-assemble \-\-scan. .PP Invoking .B mdassemble @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ supports all configuration parameters defined in with the exception of .B auto= which is supported only if mdadm was built with the -.B -DMDASSEMBLE_AUTO +.B \-DMDASSEMBLE_AUTO define. .SH SEE ALSO |