Troff error in shadow(5) man page

Danilo Piazzalunga <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:06:20 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general
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Hello,

I've started working on the Italian translation of the man pages, and I hope 
to bring them up to date as soon as I can.

While doing this, I found an error in the shadow(5) man page: there is a line 
starting with '\.', which causes groff to skip it entirely. It should be 
prepended by the zero-width '\&' character to ensure correct parsing. The 
required change is attached as a patch.

Best Regards,
Danilo

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shadow-5-manpage-fix.diff (text/x-diff, 679 B)

Index: man/shadow.5
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/shadow/man/shadow.5,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 shadow.5
--- man/shadow.5	1 May 2003 18:17:39 -0000	1.11
+++ man/shadow.5	24 Feb 2005 23:57:38 -0000
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 .PP
 The password field must be filled. The encryped password consists of 13 to
 24 characters from the 64 character alphabet a thru z, A thru Z, 0 thru 9,
-\. and /. Refer to \fBcrypt\fR(3) for details on how this string is
+\&\. and /. Refer to \fBcrypt\fR(3) for details on how this string is
 interpreted.
 .PP
 The date of the last password change is given as the number of days since