Re: tbl(1) minor issues

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

Hi Dave,

On 7/23/22 16:58, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 7/23/22, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's _still_ too general a claim, but it
> > will take me some time to find a way to articulate it well.
>
> No need; we don't have to document our personal punctuation principles
> here.  We've resolved this tbl man-page issue (pending Alex's input,

Oh yeah, I like Branden's fix (I'm not entirely convinced by the removal 
of "Some of these options require a parenthesized argument", in exchange 
for an implicit mention in the new sentence, but I can live with it).

> but the proposed fix does address his initial objection) and that's
> what matters.  Discussions on general style philosophies can wait till
> our next Punctuation Pedants meeting.  (The flyer for it is being held
> up while a subcommittee debates whether the guest speaker should be
> billed as "Dr Walker" or "Dr. Walker".)

Cheers,

Alex

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Alejandro Colomar
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