Ascii docs, paragraph breaks in lists

James Browning jamesb192 at jamesb192.com
Thu Feb 19 12:36:21 UTC 2026


> On 02/19/2026 3:12 AM PST Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

It fails to implement a couple of line breaks, and the text following is misinterpreted as a type of monospace block.

> What does the 3rd + do here:
>  From docs/includes/nts-commands.adoc
> 
> +cert+ _file_::
>   Present the certificate (chain) in _file_ as our certificate.
>   +
>   Note that there is no checking on the certificate.
>   In particular, it may have expired or may not cover the host name
>   used to get to this server or may not be signed by a CA that
>   is in the clients root-server collection.
> 
> It looks like it is supposed to start a new paragraph, but it shows up in 
> the text, both in the man page and the html page.
> 
> Removing it but leaving the blank line does the right thing in html but the following paragraph is indented in the man pages.
> 
> Anybody understand this area?

No, I have the bozo bit & I experiment in an ineffective manner.

It also appears to render differently in asciidoc V10
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