GNU bug report logs - #46808
Man page of "tail"

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Reuti <reuti <at> staff.uni-marburg.de>

Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 07:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 46808 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Reuti <reuti <at> staff.uni-marburg.de>
Cc: 46808 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46808: Man page of "tail"
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:02:55 +0100

On Feb 27 2021, Reuti wrote:

> I'm not a `groff` expert, but the sequence "\,some-text\/" appears a couple of times. What effect does it have for the formatting as the "," and "/" are not output?

\, and \/ add some space as italic correction, see (groff) Ligatures and
Kerning.

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