Man page formatting quirk

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:45:14 -0700
Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

> >> RFC 8915::  
> >          ^^
> > Starts a list.  
> 
> Most of the others that also use :: come out looking OK.

That does not make them correct.

> The next
> line on them starts with "David" instead of "D." and they don't get
> the "1" in front of the line of text.

My guess is the D. is thought to be the number (letter0 in a numbered
list.

> I was wrong about the web page being OK.  It changes the D. to A. and 
> indents a big jump.

As it was told.  So don't make it a list.

RGDS
GARY
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