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Re: [PATCH] Cleanup of lh_config manpage



Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
> Apologizes for not responding sooner.

no problem, and nothing to apologize for. and thanks again for the
usefull additions.

> I've actually been trying to find
> a reference to indicate a precedent in this matter but was unsuccessful.

please let me know in case you find something.

> The reason why I changed them myself was because it appeared some places
> in the man page already do include the quotes and others don't and more
> importantly that in some places the formatting was incorrect/typoed
> causing small parts of the man page to not even render at all. When I
> went to standardize all instances, I noticed that \fI"FOO\fR" was much
> more readable than "\fIFOO\fR" (especially so when mixed in with a bunch
> of other formatting and text). I thought that the more readable format
> might help prevent further mistakes in the future.

inconsistency is always bad, however, in case i'm 'right' that the
non-terminal parts only should be underlined, we should convert any
other wrong or different appearances, regardless what looks better.

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