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commit a1ce6ee0cf079dbe7da085c8af9b0d98ebb42a31
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 14 10:23:44 2025 -0600
groff_man_style(7): Tweak quotation advice.
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index 71c1272ca..d28d9df11 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ _endif()dnl
.\" Legal Terms
.\" ====================================================================
.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 1999-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.\" Copyright (C) 1999-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\"
.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
@@ -4593,15 +4593,16 @@ inline examples,
mentions of individual characters or short strings,
and (sub)section headings in man pages\(rq.
.
-When setting examples of multi-word literals,
+Multi-word literals,
such as Unix commands,
-inline
-(as opposed to displaying them between
+when set inline
+(as opposed to displayed between
.B .EX
and
.BR .EE ),
-use of quotation marks is important to ensure that the boundaries of the
-quotation are clear even when the material is stripped of font styling
+should be quoted
+to ensure that the boundaries of the literal
+are clear even when the material is stripped of font styling
by,
for example,
copy-and-paste operations.
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