On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 17:18:16 +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> +an emulation root (e.g.:
> +.Pa /emul/linux )

That colon doesn't go there.
(I see that often, in various languages, and since a colon is (often)
pronounced as a change in pitch before it, and a brief pause, it causes
a weird sentence.
http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/colon/5/misuse-of-colon/
seems to give some rules when not to use colons).

-Olaf.
-- 
___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for
\X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl    -- 'this bath is too hot.'

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