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List:       freedesktop-xorg-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH xinit] remove bogus \/ escapes
From:       Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis () xs4all ! nl>
Date:       2015-08-31 18:55:57
Message-ID: 201508311855.t7VItv4q029935 () glazunov ! sibelius ! xs4all ! nl
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> From: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@herrb.eu>
> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:19:38 +0200
> 
> From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
> 
> some X manuals use then escape sequence \/ when they want to render
> a slash.  That's bad because \/ is not a slash but an italic
> correction, never producing any output, having no effect at all in
> terminal output, and only changing spacing in a minor way in typeset
> output.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@herrb.eu>

Verified that even man on Linux doesn't render \/ as a slash.

Reviewed-by: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>

> ---
>  man/xinit.man | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git man/xinit.man man/xinit.man
> index f8005ce..de6e27c 100644
> --- man/xinit.man
> +++ man/xinit.man
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ This will start up a server named \fIX\fP, and will append the given
>  arguments to the default \fIxterm\fP command.  It will ignore \fI\.xinitrc\fP.
>  .TP 8
>  .B "xinit \-e widgets \-\^\- ./Xorg \-l \-c"
> -This will use the command \fI\.\/Xorg \-l \-c\fP to start the server and will
> +This will use the command \fI\./Xorg \-l \-c\fP to start the server and will
>  append the arguments \fI\-e widgets\fP to the default \fIxterm\fP command.
>  .TP 8
>  .B "xinit /usr/ucb/rsh fasthost cpupig \-display ws:1 \-\^\-  :1 \-a 2 \-t 5"
> -- 
> 2.4.6
> 
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