<div dir='auto'><div><br></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-30-</div></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: James Browning <jamesb192@jamesb192.com><br>Date: Mar 14, 2025 15:59<br>Subject: Re: Man page formatting quirk<br>To: Hal Murray <halmurray@sonic.net><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Inconvenient.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">On Mar 14, 2025 15:16, Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:</div><div dir="auto"><div class="elided-text"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">
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I a few RFCs to the ntpd man page.
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The code looks like this:
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RFC 8915::
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D. Franke and D. Sibold and K. Teichel and M. Dansarie and R. Sundblad
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_Network Time Security for the Network Time Protocol_, RFC 8915
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That turns into this:
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RFC 8915
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1. Franke and D. Sibold and K. Teichel and M. Dansarie and R.
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Sundblad Network Time Security for the Network Time
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Protocol,
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RFC 8915
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I assume the "D" is getting interpreted as a command to start a list or
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something like that. How do I get around that?<br /></p></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Backslashes the sort used by Redmondites to seperate path elements. </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><div class="elided-text"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">
Also..
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RFC 5907::
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H. Gerstung and ...
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turns into:
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RFC 5908
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R. Gayraud and ...
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What's the "." doing? The web page looks OK.<br /></p></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">It is a non list triggering period as an escaped value.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><div class="elided-text"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">
All the RFCs start with "RFC nnnn::" and end with ", RFC nnnn". That looks redundant to me. Is there any reason for the extra one at the end<br /></p></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Continuation of the list to another item?</div><div dir="auto"><div class="elided-text"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr"></p></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>