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From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth DOT Nellis AT xerox DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: strftime man page is garbled
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 13:09:36 +0000
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From: Marco Atzeri
> <snip>
> It looks a man-db issue, it misinterprets the ' at the begin
> of the phrase.
> 
> Adding a single space before works fine.

Perhaps preferred would be to highlight the name with .B:

$ diff -u before after
--- before      2015-06-04 08:37:08.693623000 -0400
+++ after       2015-06-04 08:47:17.078420500 -0400
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
          const struct tm *restrict TIMP);

 .SH DESCRIPTION
-'strftime' converts a 'struct tm' representation of the time (at TIMP)
+.B strftime
+converts a 'struct tm' representation of the time (at TIMP)
 into a null-terminated string, starting at S and occupying no more than
 MAXSIZE characters.

$ 

--Ken Nellis

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