extraneous \% before Section

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owner:ietf@augustcellars.com resolution_fixed type_defect | by arusso@amsl.com

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The nroff output has extraneous "%" before "Section" (generated from xref). Minor because it doesn't cause an issue when converting the nroff to text.

Example: see %Section 4.2

(Note: % correctly appears before anchors than contain a hyphen, e.g., %[IANA-PORT])

v2 nroff attached; generated from XML with #168.

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Issue migrated from trac:169 at 2022-02-05 12:32:46 +0000

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@arusso@amsl.com uploaded file test6943.nroff (52.7 KiB)

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed priority from minor to trivial

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@arusso@amsl.com commented

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Bug in the nroff output: if the xref-created 'Section X' is at the beginning of a sentence, then there is only one space after the preceding period. (Should be 2 spaces after sentence-ending period.)

Examples from attached test.nroff:

of different options for dealing with them. \%Section\03.1 discusses
the problem of how to deal with file management of groups of files,
or content collections. \%Section\03.2 deals with a related topic:

The nroff yields text with 1 space after 'them.' and 'collections.' when it should be 2 spaces.

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@arusso@amsl.com uploaded file test.nroff (94.9 KiB)

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@arusso@amsl.com uploaded file test.xml (116.3 KiB)

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@arusso@amsl.com commented

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The extraneous % in the nroff sometimes yields a stray "-" when converted to text. For example:

v2 nroff:

6.  Data type semantics must be appropriate for the data type.
(\%Section\04.4) (tool support)

nroff-generated text:

  6.  Data type semantics must be appropriate for the data type.  (-
      Section 4.4) (tool support)

corrected nroff (removed %):

6.  Data type semantics must be appropriate for the data type.
(Section\04.4) (tool support)

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@ietf@augustcellars.com changed owner from henrik@levkowetz.com to ietf@augustcellars.com

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed status from new to closed

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@henrik@levkowetz.com changed resolution from `` to fixed

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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Fixed in 531a96d:

Patch from elwynd@dial.pipex.com: Don't emit '%' before 'Section' for xrefs in the nroff writer. Fixes issue #169.

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@henrik@levkowetz.com commented

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From 8bc0749:

Tweaked known-good test masters to match Elwyn's fix, see issue #169.