From c99dbb27763f914a3fb62c02866e629ae5c7cbfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "G. Branden Robinson" Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 10:41:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man-pages.7: wfix Saw this while preparing the "switch to \~" change Alex invited. Signed-off-by: G. Branden Robinson Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/man-pages.7 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man7/man-pages.7 b/man7/man-pages.7 index 6cb805343..3819dfd97 100644 --- a/man7/man-pages.7 +++ b/man7/man-pages.7 @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ makes it easier to write tools that parse man page source files.) .SS Use semantic newlines In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be started on new lines, -and long sentences should split into lines at clause breaks +and long sentences should be split into lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and so on). This convention, sometimes known as "semantic newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of patches,